Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.