Quotes of: Poor-people Keyword

Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.

The Hippopotamus

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Ham on Rye

When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.

India: An Illustrated History

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

King Lear

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

Red Queen

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Succubus Blues

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Everything and everyone is your teacher unless you are a poor student.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Hunger and necessity are poor teachers of morality. A society that cannot provide the basics of life does not get its laws obeyed.

Man On Fire

Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil

Missin' (Novel)

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the vote in women's hands not only as a right but as a desperate necessity.

My Own Story

How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit... No happiness lasted.

To the Lighthouse

Short stories are often treated as the poor cousins of novels.

The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.

Mockingjay

If you have a poverty of heart then you are the poorest among the poor.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.

Poor Richard's Almanack

What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational

Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.

Poor Things

came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens.

Poor White

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

Poor White

The picture is bad because the photographer was poor. I took the picture myself, and you can clearly tell I have no money.

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