Inconvenient Quote by Christine Pope

“When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.”

— Stan Grant

“I can endure poverty but not shame-neglect but not insult,and insult from you..”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Father's world was unsparing. Nothing good came free, even love. You paid for all things, and if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“I pity the poverty of your wealth.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I hate being poor.”

— J.K. Rowling

“But, as my sister says, ‘there must always be poor people so that now that I’m rich I can shit on them.”

— Marcel Proust

“I can’t afford to be dishonest. I also can’t afford to be poor.”

— Jarod Kintz

“People are not poor because they’ve made bad choices, my mother liked to say, they make bad choices because they’re poor.”

— Zadie Smith

“There is no point in poverty if it does not make a rich man, observing it, feel better.”

— Tom Morrison

“No matter how poor a person is, if they have a family than they are rich.”

— Someone You've Probably Never Heard Of

“Today, it's shameful being poor and unathletic-it's a sign that you're not making it.”

— Svetlana Alexievich

“It‘s not a shameful thing to want to save your family.”

— Emma Hamm