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beggar Quotes and Quotations
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud | top
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Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure. Margaret Cavendish | top
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And love is love in beggars and in kings. Edward Dyer | top
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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married. Elizabeth I | top
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor. Jean de La Fontaine | top
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Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation. Martha Gellhorn | top
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When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger. Giovanni Guareschi | top
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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. Ben Hecht | top
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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. Don Herold | top
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I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers. Nicole Kidman | top
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. Rudyard Kipling | top
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. Karl Kraus | top
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none. Charles Lamb | top
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Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. Philip Massinger | top
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air. Mary McCarthy | top
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Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth. Arthur Murphy | top
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. Octavio Paz | top
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. Abbe Pierre | top
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Is an artist much more than a beggar? Clara Schumann | top
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He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home. Stijn Streuvels | top
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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand | top
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No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. Jeremy Taylor | top
