William Hazlitt Quotes
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
William Hazlitt
Quotes to Explore
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
N. T. Wright
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It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
Saint Patrick
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
Rand Paul
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.
Matthew Desmond
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
Thomas More
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I have to say that I'm a very passionate person.
Demetrius Shipp, Jr.
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I'm betting that in two years I'll be talking to you about a film that I shot on an iPhone. It's absolutely coming, I have no doubt in my mind.
Edward Burns
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Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.
Elizabeth Janeway
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
William Hazlitt