Clarice Lispector Quotes

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Money doesn't buy class.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

The Palestinian population is relatively affluent in the Arab world. Poverty is not the root cause of the Palestinian problems.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.

The poor are little folks living on little lands who want what we already have.

Flip-flops are a privilege, not a right.

I wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

Sleep is for those people who are broke.

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.

I haven't met a rich technician

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.