Vidal Sassoon

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

British Businessman

Bernard de Mandeville

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

English Philosopher

Patrick Kavanagh

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

Irish Poet

John Ridley

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

American Director

Henry Mayhew

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.

English Journalist

David Linley

My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.

British Royalty

Karl Philipp Moritz

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

German Author

Deborah Meaden

My parents felt I should earn my money because I would then value it. So they would pay me a shilling or two to do jobs such as washing the car, cleaning and washing up.

English Businesswoman

John James Audubon

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.

American Scientist

Benjamin Franklin

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

American Politician

Understand that one shilling was a significant amount of money in the past.

Historical Value

One old shilling equates to 5 new pence, assisting in understanding old money references.

Monetary Conversion

Shillings were part of a pre-decimalization currency system, often appearing in historical texts.

Cultural Significance

Shilling in these countries is a present-day currency, used in everyday transactions.

Active Currency

A shilling has more concrete value in East Africa, unlike its idiomatic uses.

Exact Value

In modern use, 'shillings' is often used to indicate multiples of the currency.

Plural Usage

'Not worth a shilling' implies something is of very little value.

Metaphorical Worth

The phrase 'not care a shilling' shows a complete lack of concern or interest.

Expressing Indifference

The idiom 'not give a shilling for' can show low regard for someone's opinion or output.

Valuing Opinions

 And so she ultimately turned to prostitution. It wasn't organized in the way we often think of it. She would go into the city at night with about 20 girls, look for work, and sometimes come back with a few shillings, or sometimes with nothing. And she said, "You know, the poverty wasn't so bad. It was the humiliation

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 They put 40 shillings, we give them four more, they say thank you very much. That person gave up six. They could have gotten six more if they gave a hundred, but they don't see it. So we created what we call pre-match. We put the 10 shillings in at the beginning of the week. We said, "It's waiting for you!"

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 for that kind of work here. So you have to fund everything. If there's need for buying things, be prepared to fund that." I said, "No problem." We started with the 10 students. We tried many things that didn't work. I actually left the bank with about 1.5 million Uganda shillings.

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 that's worth about two shilling exactly that's about it I've never gambled in my life it but today I did feel different I felt that I wanted to gamble I wanted to take our jobs we ran the experiment several times that's it don't move

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 shillings to track gorillas for a day plus $15 to get it a percentage of that revenue goes into the community's coffers boosting incomes and funding projects like new schools in this country where the average income is

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 Where has all the aid gone? I want to use the example of my own country, called Uganda, and the kind of structure of incentives that aid has brought there. In the 2006-2007 budget, expected 2.5 trillion shillings.

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 were making few shillings the first environmentalists Ali designs every piece of the boat you

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