Quote: "You are businesslike, I see," said the Grand Duchess kindly. "I wish I was. But I have no idea of money at all. What I want I have to have, that is all."
It seemed to Jane a simple but admirable attitude of mind.
Character: Grand Duchess Pauline and Jane Cleveland
Chapter/Story: "Jane in Search of a Job"
Book Title/Copyright: The Golden Ball and Other Stories, 1924
Subject: Money
Quote: “Oh! money! All the troubles in the world can be put down to money—or the lack of it.”
Character: Major Hector Blunt
Chapter/Story: 10—The Parlormaid
Book Title/Copyright: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, 1926Subject: Money
Quote: “You see it is very dangerous to have everything you want—including enough money to buy things.”
Character: Tuppence Beresford
Chapter/Story: 1—A Fairy in the Flat
Book Title/Copyright: Partners in Crime, 1929
Subject: Financial Advice
Quote: “It looks bad to pay too promptly when you’ve just opened an account—looks as though you were working up to get some credit later on.”
Character: Miss Lemon
Chapter/Story: “How Does Your Garden Grow?”
Book Title/Copyright: The Regatta Mystery, 1932Subject: Inheritance
Quote: “Don’t let your children wait until you’re dead. They want the money when they’re young, not when they’re middle-aged.”
Character: Conway Jefferson
Chapter/Story: 8
Book Title/Copyright: The Body in the Library, 1942
Subject: Money
Quote: “Cedric Crackenthorpe, I have been given to understand, is not interested in money?”
Mr. Wimborne gave Craddock a cold stare.
“Indeed? I am inclined, myself, to take statements of such a nature with what I might term a grain of salt. There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.”
Mr. Wimborne obviously derived a certain satisfaction from this remark.
Character: Detective Inspector Dermot Craddock and Mr. Wimborne
Chapter/Story: 14
Book Title/Copyright: What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! [4:50 From Paddington], 1957
