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Poverty: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

No matter what: He's poor, and that's revenge enough.— T. A. iii. 4.

Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other station;— C. iv. 5.

here's no place for you; pray you, avoid. As we do turn our backs From our companion, thrown into his grave; So his familiars to his buried fortunes Slink all away; leave their false vows with him, Like empty purses pick'd; and his poor self, A dedicated beggar to the air, With his disease of all shunn'd poverty,— T.A. iv. 2.

Walks, like contempt, alone. Anon, a careless herd Full of the pasture, jumps along by him; Ay, quoth Jaques, Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt then?— 4.F. ii. 1

Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness, And fear's to die? famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression stareth in thine eyes, Upon thy back hangs ragged misery, The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. R. J. v. 1 Who can speak broader than he that has no house to put his head in?-Such may rail against great buildings.— T. A. iii. 4.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear. K. L. iv. 4. A most poor man, made tame by fortune's blows; Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows. Am pregnant to good pity.— K. L. iv. 6.

No, Madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor; though many of the rich are damned.— A. W. i. 3.

A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. H. VI. PT. II. iii. 1. They say, poor suitors have strong breaths.— C. i. 1.