Everyday Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

— J. K. Rowling

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, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of…

— James Gustave Speth

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

— Megan Lee

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 has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

— Samuel Johnson

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

— Anonymous

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end…

— Gabrielle Roy

Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support…

— John Hope Bryant

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 breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

— Damian Marley