Who, being loved, is poor?

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and in sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.

The poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with no one even taking your name-and then coming back the next day, and the next, until they finally get around to you.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I didn't feel poor, I just felt that I didn't have any money