Beggar Quotes

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

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.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

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

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

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

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

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

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

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