Ashamed Quote by Pericles

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed…

— Pericles

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but…

— Thucydides

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine…

— Louisa May Alcott

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

— Confucius

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

— Confucius

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

— Faina Ranevskaya

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

— Pericles

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

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

— Washington Irving

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the…

— William Cobbett

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and…

— Seneca the Younger

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