"Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing……" — Arthur Murphy

More Beggarly Quotes

This quote is filed under Beggarly Quotes, one of 12 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The beggarly last doit. — William Cowper
• How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! — Walt Whitman
• When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy,… — James Russell Lowell
• Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a… — Samuel Johnson
• A beggarly people, A church and no steeple. — Thomas B. Macaulay
• When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost… — Rabindranath Tagore
• The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it,… — Thomas Hardy
• No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires… — Jeremy Taylor
• In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave… — Mark Twain
• He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and… — James Allen
• Today festival is a big burden for beggarly humans.Mak_786 — Mak_786

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