Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, “The very rich are different from you and me.” And how someone had said to Julian, “Yes, they have more money.””
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“Ghost. My hour is almost come
When I to sulph’rous and tormenting flames
Must render up myself.
Hamlet. Alas, poor ghost!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The centuries will burn rich loads
With which we groaned,
Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids,
While songs are crooned:
But they will not dream of us poor lads,
Left in the ground.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)