Charity

Famous quotes containing the word charity:

“When a sparrow sips in the river, the water doesn’t recede. Giving charity does not deplete wealth. Saint Kabir says so.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.

“How much methinks, I could despise this man,
But that I am bound in charity against it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Having levelled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)