Quotes About House-rent

Lodging is not only much cheaper in London than in Paris; it is much cheaper than in Edinburgh, of the same degree of goodness; and, what may seem extraordinary, the dearness of house-rent is the cause of the cheapness of lodging.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

I was playing birthday parties. House-rent parties where they used to sell whisky during prohibition.