Stuart Wilde Quotes

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Money can't buy poverty.

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

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

God has always been hard on the poor.

They [poor youth] don't have any respect for the property of others because they don't have any property.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Poverty demoralizes.

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

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

… the submerged tenth

Poverty is a noose that strangles humility and breeds disrespect for God and man.