Beggar

Famous quotes containing the word beggar:

“His poor self,
A dedicated beggar to the air,
With his disease of all-shunned poverty,
Walks, like contempt, alone.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

““And get a comfortable wife and house
To rid me of the devil in my shoes,”
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
“And the worse devil that is between my thighs.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)