Charles Lamb Quotes

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's no honor either.

Poverty demoralizes.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive it (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

Broke is temporary, poor is eternal.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.

No one knows what it's like ... to be a dustbin ... in Shaftesbury ... with hooligans.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.