Famous quotes containing the word rich:
“Pity is not your forte.
Calmly you ache up there
pinned aloft in your crows nest,
my speechless pirate!”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“By evening she was back in love again,
though not so wholly but throughout the night
she woke sometimes to feel the daylight coming
like a relentless milkman up the stairs.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.”
—Ernest Hemingway (18991961)