Humiliating Quote by Amelia Barr

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts…

— J. K. Rowling

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without…

— Secundus the Silent

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

— Josh Billings

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

— Pope Benedict XVI

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is…

— Dorothy Day

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the…

— William Cobbett

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse…

— Washington Irving

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

— Wallace Stevens