Beggars Quotes

103 quotes by 83 authors

Beggars should be no choosers. — John Heywood
Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops… — Steven Rattner
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost… — Carol Vorderman
The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars. — Fidel Castro
People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars. — Dominick Dunne
It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks… — Mata Amritanandamayi
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken… — Hank Williams, Jr.
If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're… — Kiran Desai
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. — Thomas B. Macaulay
If one looks closely one sees that there is no essential difference between a beggar's livelihood and that of numberless respectable people. Beggars do not… — George Orwell
New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their… — Duke Ellington
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride. — John Ray
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have… — George Bernard Shaw
Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive… — Martha Gellhorn
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these… — Lady Gregory
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. — Mason Cooley
I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers. — Nicole Kidman
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see… — Stephen King
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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