Arthur Quote by Coco Chanel

“I was raised to assume that wealth and rank and privilege would be mine by right," he said painfully. "Through a combination of bad…

— Mary Jo Putney

“He was always saying: “Don’t get ideas above your station. Don’t think you’re anything special.” When the boys in their high spirits declared that…

— David Lagercrantz

Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Mediocrity, I discovered, was the great camouflage; the great protective coloring. Those boys who did not fail, yet did not excel, were left alone,…

— Alan Bradley

“The offerings of Machiavelli (1469–1527), Guicciardini (1483–1540), La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) and La Bruyère (1645–96) give us an indication of the manoeuvres that workers may,…

— Alain de Botton

“How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?”

— Kate Morton

“poverty is not a vice, that’s a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that’s even truer.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“They taught me that being of service, an ally to the lonely and suffering, a big-girl helper to underdogs, was my best shot at…

— Anne Lamott

“Mr Babbington,' he said, suddenly stopping in his up and down. 'Take your hands out of your pockets. When did you last write home?'…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Finally, there was the impediment of his nature. In the secret parts of his peculiar brain, those unhappy and inextricable tangles which he felt…

— T.H. White

“I've learned that solutions to poverty must be driven by discipline, accountability, and market strength, not easy sentimentality. I've learned that many of the…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“Ever you retreat from others rather than risk discovering they hold you in poor esteem. Yet by that, you also fail to learn how…

— Galen Beckett