Hollow Quote by Washington Irving Download Open image “It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.” — Washington Irving ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hollow Men Poverty Pretense Pretension Ruined
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. — Hebrew Proverb Copy Share Image
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust. — Megan Lee Copy Share Image
Poverty is rather a state of mind. No man who possess this mentality can outwardly command abundance. — Ore Abayomi Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things. — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Poverty is a form of hell caused by man's blindness to God's unlimited good for him. You should be prosperous, well supplied and have… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound,… — Washington Irving Copy Share
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go… — Curtis Sliwa Copy Share Image
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King Copy Share
It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God.… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set.… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
You could hollow out a big pumpkin and wear it on your head for the entire week of your birthday. This will allow you… — Jade Puget Copy Share Image
