Joseph Stiglitz

Those who have contributed great positive innovations to our society, from the pioneers of genetic understanding to the pioneers of the Information Age, have received a pittance compared with those responsible for the financial innovations that brought our global economy to the brink of ruin.

American Economist

Julia Glass

From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.

American Novelist

Gillian Jacobs

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed.

American Actress

Wole Soyinka

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

Nigerian Dramatist

Use 'pittance' to stress unfairness when someone receives too little for their work or effort.

Emphasizing Injustice

'Pittance' often expresses opinion rather than an exact small amount; the actual sum can differ widely.

Not Literal

The word carries negative emotions, suggesting dissatisfaction or resentment.

Negative Feelings

 When all you've got left is that cross on the wall I want nothing from you, I want nothing at all Not a pension, nor a pittance, when your whole life is through Get this through your head, I'm nothing like you I'm done with all the arguments, there'll be no more disputes

Sting: How I started...

 karen has turned her life around thanks to her commitment to this radical program see a bear took me like that safe the best moments of positive just ask to see a human smarts very mo here on a pittance in effect bone dark peace

The Medical Heroin...

 world when it comes to thinking and technology and democracy and all that stuff we care about I dare say it's a pittance it's a pittance what it would require for us to really begin to solve