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)