To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in favour of my sentiments. A rich man bestows, on a poor and famishing beggar, alms by which he may be able to maintain himself a...
As they were walking, a beggar came up, holding his hand out and crying, "Baksheesh! Baksheesh!" Mike kept on going but Mitchell stopped. Digging into his pocket, he pulled out twenty paise and placed it in the beggar's dirty hand. Mike said, "I used...
Barbara Wakefield: What's Washington like? Robert Wakefield: What's Washington like? Well its like Calcutta, surrounded by beggars. The only difference is the beggars in Washington wear fifteen hundred dollar suits and they don't say please or thank ...
And love is love in beggars and in kings.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Is an artist much more than a beggar?
I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.
A borrower who doesn't returns is a beggar.
They are but beggars that can count their worth.
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm tha...
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Now beggars can be choosers with Cosmic Ordering.
I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.
[Amélie hands a begger some money] Beggar: Sorry madam, I don't work on Sundays.
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
