George Orwell Quotes

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

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.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

I don't believe in pressure. Pressure is when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

Now we've got lots of freedom and no money.

It's good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It's good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.