"Estate agent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the course of this study. This study does not profess to be biographical, and only the essential facts of Chesterton's life need be given here. These are, that he was born in London in 1873, is the son of a West London estate agent who is also an artist and a children's poet in a small but charming way, is married and has children. Perhaps it is more necessary to record the fact that he is greatly read by the youth of his day, that he ...
— G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study • Julius West
... suppose a real estate agent receives an inquiry about a farm. The inquiry can be clearly answered by ...
— Business Correspondence • Anonymous
... said, partly in apology for the real-estate agent, "if a man out here don't take off his hat to a girl, ...
— The Plow-Woman • Eleanor Gates
... moderately well off and he was by nature, cautious. His investments were always of the most conservative sort. This from habit as well as nature because his job—the only one he had ever had—was that of estate agent. But Paula's instinct told her that he wouldn't find it possible to refuse. I think it told her too, though this was a voice that did not make itself fairly heard to her conscious ear, that he would be made very fluttered and unhappy by it whether ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster
... and distressing gesture (i.e., when it is making up its mind to part with some money), manage to retain their fine serenity and blitheness of spirit? They have to contemplate all the pathetic struggles of mortality, for what is more pathetic than the spectacle of a man trying to convince a real estate agent that he is not really a wealthy creature masking millions behind an eccentric pose of humility? Our genial adviser Grenville Kleiser, who has been showering his works upon us, has classified all ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley |
