Beggar Quotes
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess,
I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth.
William Shakespeare
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When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
William Shakespeare
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A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
William Shakespeare
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Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!
William Shakespeare
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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
William Butler Yeats
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
William Hazlitt
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Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.
Vivek Wadhwa
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They are but beggars that can count their worth.
William Shakespeare
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Just as the good actor perform well whatever role the poet assigns, so too must the good man perform whatever Fortune assigns. For she, says Bion, just like a poet, sometimes assigns the leading role, sometimes that of the supporting role; sometimes that of a king, sometimes that of a beggar. Do not, therefore, being a supporting actor, desire the role of the lead.
Bion of Borysthenes
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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
William Shakespeare
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I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason – but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.
Charles Dickens
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Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.
William Shakespeare