What Price Glory?

-Anderson, Maxwell
  Title of play (with Lawrence Stallings).

The ordinary 'horseless-carriage' is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although the price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.

-Anonymous
  Literary Digest,14 Oct.

Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, Quem in mundi pretium Fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit gentium. Now, my tongue, the mystery telling Of the glorious Body sing, And the Blood, all price excelling, Which the Gentiles' Lord and King, In aVirgin's womb once dwelling, Shed for this world's ransoming.

-Aquinas, StThomas
  Pange Lingua Gloriosi, known as the Corpus Christi hymn (translated by J M Neale et al).

A real, honest, old-fashioned Boarding-school, where a reasonable quantity of accomplishments were sold at a reasonable price, and where girlsmight be sent to be out of the wayand scramblethemselves into a little education, without any danger of coming back prodigies.

-Austen,Jane
  Emma, ch.3.

   Nay: but Iwill surely buy it oftheeat a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which dost cost me nothing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 24:24.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 31:10.

And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Zechariah11:12.

   PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.'

-Coupland, Douglas
Generation X,'M T V Not Bullets'.

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that isthefact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race.

-Du Bois,W(illiam) E(dward) B(urghardt)
Preface to reprint of  The Souls of Black Folk (1969).

The price that the market sets on the services of our resources is similarlyaffected bya bewildering mixture of chance and choice. Frank Sinatra's voice was highly valued intwentieth-century United States.Would it have been highly valued in twentieth-century India, if he had happened to be born and to live there?

-Friedman, Milton
Free to Choose (with Rose Friedman).

Julia: how Irishly you sacrifice Love to pity, pity to ill-humour, Yourself to love, still haggling at the price.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
'Reproach to  Julia', collected in Collected Poems (1959).

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  The Heart of the Matter, bk.1, pt.1, ch.2, iii.

The value, or worth of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

-Hobbes,Thomas
Leviathan, pt.1, ch.10.

Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  Texts and Pretexts,'Amor Fati'.

How do you put a price on the Washington Monument?

-Kennedy, Roger George
  On presenting his annual budget to Congress and being asked to produce a price list setting a market value on each of the nation's 368 park units. Reported in the US News and World Report, 3  Apr.

If blood be the price of admiralty Lord God, we ha'paid in full!

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'A Song of the Dead'.

The price was quite reasonable. It just happened to be a lot of money.

-Merrin, Edward H
  In the NewYork Times,16  Jul. On paying $2.09 million for a nine-inch, 5,000-year-old Greek head.

I sometimes think the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.4.

If a man bring to London an ounce of Silver out of the Earth in Peru in the same time that he can produce a bushel of Corn, then one isthe natural price of the other.

-Petty, Sir William
  Treatise ofTaxes.

It isnot to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant.It varies at different times in thesame countryand very materially differs in different countries. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.

-Ricardo, David
  Principles of Political Economy andTaxation.