Money Quote by Alix Olson

“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat:…

— Doris Lessing

“she still had that fundamental insecurity that one bout of poverty can inflict for a lifetime, and no amount of money remedy.”

— Len Deighton

“We will rich soon, and you who handle poverty badly will handle riches equally badly... In poverty she is envious. In riches she may…

— John Steinbeck

“...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth. p 290”

— Frank Huyler

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to…

— Angela Carter

“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.”

— Seneca

“Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.”

— Stephen Richards

“Though riches had charms, poverty had no terrors for an inexperienced girl like me. Indeed, to say the truth, there was something exhilarating in…

— Anne Brontë

“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether…

— Roman Payne

“Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.”

— Edith Wharton

“Her poverty was naked on the empty streets, and if no one walked abroad she felt all the more ghastly, like a wretched sinner…

— Christina Stead

“The manner of the woman was ungracious; but her words were true. They saw that their presence could do nothing towards the alleviation of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne