Beggar Quotes

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished.

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

And love is love, in beggars and in kings.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds and roses would drop from my mouth, she said that since I was so kind, I would never have any problems with my teeth.” “Really? Did it work?” “Well, I haven’t had a toothache since I met her.” “I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those things but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do you think Bell is supposed to be?" "I don't know, probably our age." "I think the beast is sweet, don't you?" "Do I have to answer that?" "Why does the crockery talk?" "Because they're really the prince's servants that the beggar woman put a spell on." Xavier frowned suddenly and looked mortified. "I can't believe I know that.

What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such sweeteners of their existence (says Johnson)? it is surely very savage to refuse them every possible avenue to pleasure, reckoned too coarse for our own acceptance. Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.