Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Money can't buy poverty.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

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.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

I don't think that the rich should be attacked. There's nothing wrong in being rich.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

It is a sin to be poor.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Rich folks always talk hard times.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.