Poverty Quotes by William Shakespeare

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

— William Shakespeare

So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a…

— William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

— William Shakespeare

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is…

— William Shakespeare

And makes me poor indeed.

— William Shakespeare

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,…

— William Shakespeare

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

— William Shakespeare

“And yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It…

— William Shakespeare

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

— William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

— William Shakespeare

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

— William Shakespeare

“Each new morn New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds As if it…

— William Shakespeare

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

— William Shakespeare

GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me…

— William Shakespeare

There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

— William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have have not patients.

— William Shakespeare

Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!

— William Shakespeare