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Beggar Quotes

Beggar Definition

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

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

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I

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

Is an artist much more than a beggar?
Clara Schumann

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Philip Massinger

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
Don Herold

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Charles Lamb

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus

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

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