| 1. | I say political economy you say--worse. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 2. | For reasons of economy she did not take a bus. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | "No, you men never do consider economy and common sense. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 4. | It is thus, in effect, that method ordains, which must be essentially economy of principles. - from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 5. | This economy meant so much Words were not needed. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 6. | Bennet had married, economy was held to be perfectly useless, for, of course, they were to have a son. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 7. | 'They haven't no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that,' said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 8. | Political economy told him that the laws by which the wealth of Europe had been developed, and was developing, were universal and unvarying. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 9. | To do this was quite beyond my power, and I could only hope that by economy I might in ten years' time save enough to enable me to put up my plate. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |