Money Quote by Len Deighton

“there was daunting poverty, and there was haunting wealth and the narrator warned her to keep to herself”

— Alix Olson

“She’d always said that there must be something very bad about money, because those who needed it most never had it, and so many…

— Alexander Key

“Insecurity is worse than poverty.”

— Confucius

“The stinting poverty in which they lived was unbearable; it was destroying them. It did not mean that there was not enough to eat:…

— Doris Lessing

“I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I…

— Louisa May Alcott

“She hated to admit that money was the most serious difficulty. Knowing full well that it was important, she nevertheless rebelled at the unalterable…

— Nella Larsen

“And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to…

— Angela Carter

“Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money.”

— Stephen Richards

“...hers was the heartlessness of poverty, which, it seemed to me, is different from the heartlessness of wealth. p 290”

— Frank Huyler

“I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim

“I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.”

— Oscar Wilde