Beggars

Famous quotes containing the word beggars:

“He had a gentleman-like frankness in his behaviour, and as a great point of honour as a minister can have, especially a minister at the head of the treasury, where numberless sturdy and insatiable beggars of condition apply, who cannot all be gratified, nor all with safety be refused.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“If alms were only given out of pity, all the beggars would have starved to death.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don’t know it.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)