Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

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

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

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

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

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

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

Many families teeter on the edges, not qualifying for the little support on offer, unwilling to seek it for fear of drawing attention to a household barely holding the pieces together, or hit by unexpected bills.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.