Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

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

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

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

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I didn't have money growing up.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

I've been poor most of my life.

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.