"Million" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indeed. A man may be worth a million but if he can't get hold of ready money at the moment it is needed, everything may be swept away. Oh, Madge, this is cruel I With just a little more time I could ...
— A Young Girl's Wooing • E. P. Roe
... you, I married you with no such view, besides did not you tell me I should be Mistress of your Estate? And I will be too. For tho' I brought no Fortune, I am as much your Wife as if I had brought a Million—yes, but, my Dear, says he, if you had brought a Million, you would spend it all at this rate; besides, what will your Expences be in London, if they are so great here. Truly, says I, Sir, I shall live like other Ladies of my Fashion; and if you think, because I was a Servant, ...
— An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews • Conny Keyber
... yourself of the truth, either that the letter has, or has not, reached La Valliere; that, in the first case, La Valliere must return it to you, or satisfy you by burning it in your presence; that, in the second, you must have the letter back again, even were it to cost you a million. Come, is not that ...
— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... not handle Farm Mortgages, but City Investments only. The WINNER COMPANY has paid its investors over Two Million Dollars in profits since 1883, without a single ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XII, Jan. 3, 1891 • Various
... well? There"—he continued, addressing the company without waiting for an answer, and pointed with the letter to a hill, "There I have ordered a new building to be erected." He broke the seal, but not the conversation, of which wealth became the subject. "He who is not the master of at least a million," he interposed, "forgive the expression, is a ragamuffin."—"That is true, indeed," exclaimed I, with full, overflowing feeling. He must have been pleased with the expression of my concurrence, for he smiled on me ...
— Peter Schlemihl • Adelbert von Chamisso
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