“Pay no rent under any pretext!”

"No Rent" Manifesto (1881)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Pay no rent under any pretext!" by Charles Stewart Parnell?
Charles Stewart Parnell photo
Charles Stewart Parnell 11
Irish politician 1846–1891

Related quotes

“We're not gonna pay rent”

Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright

Rent (1996)

Mary Ruwart photo

“Those too poor to own their own home pay no property taxes, but their rent reflects the taxes that the landlord must pay. The poor pay higher rents to subsidize inefficiency and waste.”

Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist

Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 123

Alice Walker photo

“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

From the film poster for Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.

“[Alex] Big ideas don't pay the rent.”

Michael Nava (1954) American writer

Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.205 (Chapter 16)

“I love you. You pay my rent.”

PopArt

Tod A photo

“I was in Brooklyn and it was freezing cold. I was living in a room with no windows and paying too much in rent. I envisioned sitting under a palm tree. I followed my nose from there.”

Tod A (1965) American musician

(on why he left America to travel the world) ALARM Magazine (July 7, 2008).

Fran Lebowitz photo

“Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.”

"Parental Guidance".
Social Studies (1981)

Leonard Cohen photo

“I'm crazy for love but
I'm not coming on.
I'm just paying my rent everyday
In the Tower Of Song.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"Tower Of Song"
I'm Your Man (1988)
Context: My friends are gone and
My hair is grey.
I ache in the places where I used to play.
And I'm crazy for love but
I'm not coming on.
I'm just paying my rent everyday
In the Tower Of Song.

Marian Wright Edelman photo

Related topics