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Beggar Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then…
- Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
- Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
- Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
- To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
- Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks
- Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of…
- I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be…
- Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.
- When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
- What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to…
- A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
- They are but beggars that can count their worth.
- Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so…
- HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but…
- I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear but it…
More Beggar Quotes
- Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him as our… — David Jeremiah
- Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again and again… — Swami Vivekananda
- There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. — Karl Kraus
- Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do… — John G. Lake
- Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare
- Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley
- The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at… — Mary McCarthy
- A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the… — Thomas Adams
- Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so… — Andre Gide
- Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of… — Anzia Yezierska
- Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O… — Swami Vivekananda