William Shakespeare Quotes

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom he flatters of consequence enough to be flattered.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

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

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

I don't understand how poor people think.

All being poor, the only food they use is the cheapest jn the country—potatoes.

We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

I got songs about being broke, being on welfare, being poor, Section 8.

My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out in the Great Depression, and as a result, I had what I consider the ideal upbringing: We were a proud family, good citizens, and we didn't have a sou.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.