Poverty Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Oh, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap.
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) English poet
We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Juvenal (47-138) Roman satiric poet
Poverty does not mean the possession of little, but the lack of much.
Antipater of Macedonia (c. 397-c. 319 BC) Macedonian general
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.
Thomas Gray (1716-1771) English poet of his own character
This mournful truth is ev’rywhere confessed, Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
Hark ye, Clinker, you are a most notorious offender. You stand convicted of sickness, hunger, wretchedness, and want.
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) Scottish novelist, surgeon
There’s no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
George Farquhar (1678-1707) Irish dramatist
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) English cleric
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
Olivia, Twelfth Night William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman, writer
No man should commend poverty unless lie is poor.
Saint Bernard (1091-1153) French churchman, scholar
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Said (H. H. Munro) (1870-1916) Scottish author
That’s another advantage of being poor — a doctor will cure you faster.
Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930) American humorist, journalist
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) English economist, critic
A good poor man is better than a good rich man because he has to resist more temptations.
Plato (428-347 BC) Greek philosopher
The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He.
Thomas Raineborough (d. 1648) Puritan soldier, politician
“No one has ever said it,” observed Lady Caroline, “but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them!”
Said (H. H. Munro) (1870-1916)
Poverty has strange bedfellows.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) English novelist, playwright
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
If you’ve ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) British novelist
Come away; poverty’s catching.
AphraBehn (1640-1689) English playwright, poet
