"Stockbroker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Stevens, a London stockbroker, here to rehabilitate a broken corporation, "if we English had this place, wouldn't there be a cleaning up! We'd build it solid and sanitary, and have proper rules to make the ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien
... too otherworldly to the stockbroker and the provincial mayor, since she actually places the things of God before the things of man and "seeks first ...
— Paradoxes of Catholicism • Robert Hugh Benson
... Crib the stockbroker meets Horns a fellow-labourer in the same hempen walk of life. Crib offers to buy a little Spanish of Horns. "My dear Crib," says Horns, "it is impossible; I can't sell; for I have just received by a private hand ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various
... three of them in the railway-carriage. One was a Stockbroker; one was a Curate; one was an Old Lady. They had been strangers to each other when they started; but it was near the end of the journey, and they were chatting pleasantly together now. One could see that the little Old Lady ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. Sep. 12, 1891 • Various
... cutting intimate friends,' 'On cravats,' 'On dinner courses,' 'On poor relations.' 'On bores,' 'On lions,' were announced as speedily to appear. In the meantime, the Essay on Nonchalance produced the best effects. A ci-devant stockbroker cut a Duke dead at his club the day after its publication; and his daughter yawned while his Grace's eldest son, the Marquess, made her an offer as she was singing 'Di tanti palpiti.' The aristocrats got a little frightened, and when an eminent hop-merchant and his lady ...
— The Voyage of Captain Popanilla • Benjamin Disraeli
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