Character Quote by Horace

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

— Anonymous

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

— Eugene Sue

Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty,…

— Muriel Barbery

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts…

— J. K. Rowling

Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable,…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

— Lucian

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

— John Hagee

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our…

— Ann Radcliffe

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

— Eugene Sue

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon