"Pimp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Fra Alberto da Imola. With his habit he put on a shew of austerity, highly commending penitence and abstinence, and eating or drinking no sort of meat or wine but such as was to his taste. And scarce a soul was there that wist that the thief, the pimp, the cheat, the assassin, had not been suddenly converted into a great preacher without continuing in the practice of the said iniquities, whensoever the same was privily possible. And withal, having got himself made priest, as often as he celebrated ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio
... often happens that the master of the household has illicit intercourse with them. Hence there is a proverb, 'The king's son draws water and the water-bearer's son sits on the throne,' similar intrigues on the part of high-born women with their servants being not unknown. The Dhimar often acts as a pimp, this being an incident of his profession ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume II • R. V. Russell
... something recover'd of my fluster'd madness: And now, a word or two in sober sadness. 20 Ours is a common play; and you pay down A common harlot's price—just half-a-crown. You'll say, I play the pimp, on my friend's score; But since 'tis for a friend your gibes give o'er: For many a mother has done that before. How's this? you cry; an actor write?—we know it; But Shakspeare was an actor, and a poet. Has not great Jonson's learning often fail'd? But ...
— The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes • John Dryden
... there were hirelings in pursuit, Who thirsted for his golden price; And, swift allied with pimp and brute, And quick to purchase and entice, They found the ...
— The Mistress of the Manse • J. G. Holland
... to the moral character of the person sent to represent them in their national assemblies, and would have shewn some degree of resentment or indignation, had their votes been asked for murderer, an adulterer, a know oppressor, an hireling evidence, an attorney, a gamester, or pimp.' In the Life of Blackmere (Works, viii. 36) he has a sly hit at the profession. 'Sir Richard Blackmore was the son of Robert Blackmore, styled by Wood gentleman, and supposed to have been an attorney.' We may compare Goldsmith's lines in Retaliation:—'Then what was his failing? ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
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