Michael Korda

When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.

English Novelist

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Homeopathy - an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles' medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.

Scottish Writer

Deborah Meaden

My first paid job was leading pony rides along Minehead seafront when I was eight. I probably got paid sixpence - not much but I loved horses and it gave me a great chance to be near them.

English Businesswoman

Miriam Margolyes

People tend to think I'm funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I'm aware that doesn't make it easy for people sometimes.

English Actress

Ian Mckellen

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

English Actor

James Hogg

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

Scottish Poet

William Bligh

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

British Soldier

Understand 'sixpence' as old British currency no longer used, similar to shillings and farthings.

Historical Money

'Sixpence' appears in traditional nursery rhymes and may represent old customs or superstitions.

Children's Rhymes

Sixpences can be collectible items; their value might exceed their original worth.

Collectible Value

Used figuratively to express a lack of money; implies poverty or being broke.

Figure of Speech

In modern context, it's a colloquialism often found in conversational English.

Colloquial Usage

Not literal; sixpence is used to convey severity of having no money at all.

Metaphorical Poverty

 Wow. It cost sixpence. Isn't that something? The hut is 25 feet by 50 feet, and Barbara's team has just a few hours inside it to complete their mission.