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Beggars Quotes
A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

And love is love in beggars and in kings.
Edward Dyer

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

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.
Stijn Streuvels

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.
Nicole Kidman

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
Mason Cooley

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

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

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz






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