Francis Quarles Quotes

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

Impunity for the great thief, and jail for the thief who steals a loaf.

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

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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.

I see no reason why big-shot crooks should go free while the poor ones go to jail.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator

I don’t think the pardon power should only be available to the people who are prominent and well connected…. It should be available to people in trailer parks also.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

His position makes him one of the richest men in the world coming from one of the poorest countries of the world.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

You gotta speak for the have-nots. Everybody ain't rich.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

A criminal is undoubtedly a poor soul, who is punished for his poverty.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.