| Quote | Author | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
Poverty is spiritual halitosis. |
George Orwell | 1903 – 1950 | |
Come away; poverty’s catching. |
Aphra Behn nèe Johnson | 1640 – 1689 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. |
George Orwell | 1903 – 1950 | Down and out in Paris and London (1933) |
The devil dances in empty pockets. |
Unknown | ||
None are less visible than those we decide not to see. |
Lewis Stadler | 1896 – 1954 | |
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. |
Samuel Johnson | 1709 – 1784 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. |
James Baldwin | 1924 – 1987 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he is unable to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. |
Henri IV | 1553 – 1610 | Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,…the rich man is usually ‘bad’, and his machinations are invariably frustrated. ‘Good poor man defeats bad rich man’ is an accepted formula. |
George Orwell | 1903 – 1950 | As I Please (1943–1947) |
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticised by fools. |
J. K. Rowling | born 1965 | |
The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich. |
Emil Cioran | 1911 – 1995 | The Trouble With Being Born (1973) |
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. |
J. K. Rowling | born 1965 | |
At present I do not feel I have seen more than the fringe of poverty. |
George Orwell | 1903 – 1950 |