Poor people or Poor People may refer to:
- People living in poverty
- Poor People – initial translated versions are known as "Poor Folk"; first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Famous quotes containing the words poor people, poor and/or people:
“Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never, never.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on a delicate mission, they must airily pass by a stinking mess with barely so much as a nod of the head, make their point of constructive criticism and continue on in calm forbearance. Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)