"Haggler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be in calling me 'Sir John' these different times, when I be plain Jack Durbeyfield, the haggler?" ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy
... the Star and Garter. But that was not the case. Many testimonies to the moderate charges of that house have been cited. Perhaps the most conclusive evidence on this point is furnished by Swift, who was always a bit of a haggler as to the prices he paid at taverns. It was 'at his suggestion that the little club to which he belonged discarded the tavern they had been used to meeting in and went to the Star and Garter for their dinner. "The other dog," Swift wrote ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley
... he said, "that is precisely what I have made up my mind to do. I will pay them back in their own coin. Just as they have all stood against me, just so will I stand against them. I am no compromiser, no treaty-maker, no haggler, no beggar. I live according to my own law. I must, where other people merely should or may, or may not. Whoever does not comprehend that has nothing in common, one way or ...
— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann
... of a haggler, are you, Katie?" said Mrs. Bates. "Why don't you ask what rooms you're to have, and what I'll pay you, and how much work you'll have to do, and if you take charge of the farm, and ...
— A Daughter of the Land • Gene Stratton-Porter
... horse-trader, bargain-haggler, and general swapper has a very special talent for turning two headaches ...
— A Transmutation of Muddles • Horace Brown Fyfe |
