Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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.

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

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

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

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.