Choice Quote by Vivek Shanbhag

“But then we did not think ever of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. We thought we were superior people and other…

— Ernest Hemingway

“There were clothes, and then somehow, there were far less clothes.”

— Christina Boyd

“Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over…

— Rena Marks

“I didn't want the clothes or the perfect shoes or the expensive anything. I didn't want to be draped in silk. All I ever…

— Tahereh Mafi

“She’d paid full price, but life was a competition and she knew non-working wives of wealthy men loved to talk about how they’d saved…

— Liane Moriarty

“Humanity was a passing notion to him; something he liked to try on for size and model in the dressing room, but never actually…

— Jane Bled

“I am as poor as Victoria's Angels; I can't buy no clothes, no more.”

— Petra Hermans

“I realized that you can get so used to certain luxuries that you start to think they’re necessities, but when you have to forgo…

— Jeannette Walls

“No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can…

— Thomas More

“Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting…

— Lionel Shriver

“That a poor man has no choice but to make the best of what he finds or is given.”

— Megan Derr