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quotes by topic Poverty

" What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. "

Charles Bukowski

Poverty , Hardship

" people who eat 3 meals a day throughout lifehave never reallytastedFood... "

Charles Bukowski

Food , Poverty

" A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported whatthe rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong generalresemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf.Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion. "

Charles Dickens

Poverty , Dress

" I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another, how the heart of each to each was softened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God. "

Charles Dickens

Poverty

" The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming. "

Charles Dickens

Poor , Poverty

" Through silent alleys where dark shadows fleeted past them like forest beasts on the prowl; through bustling market-places where bloaters predominated, into crammed gin-palaces where the gas flashed over faces whereon was stamped the indelible impression of a protest against creation; brushing tatters which were in gruesome harmony with the haggard or bloated features.("The Phantom Model "

Charles Dickens

Poverty

" We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. "

Poetry , Poverty

George Bernard Shaw

Man , Mistake , Sound , Poverty

Poor , Argument , Poverty , Slander , crime

Ibrahim Babangida

People , Poverty