#beggar

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#know #society #western #western society #writers

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

#become #beggars #general #givers #i

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

— Nicole Kidman

#i #just #nominated #want

Is an artist much more than a beggar? ↗

— Clara Schumann

#beggar #more #much #than

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

— Stijn Streuvels

#ever #home #move #nowhere #shuffling

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#beggars #court #distinguished #noble

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

#beggar #behave #bone #bread #crust

Begging would have been the best option if God had given talents to only a selected few. Fortunately, He gave us all our compactible gifts respectively, so it is an offence to be a chronic beggar. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#beggars #begging #few #gifts #talents

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

— Mason Cooley

#beggars #even #had #hate #i

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#background #beggar #being #costume #deep