Poor People

Poor people or Poor People may refer to:

  • People living in poverty
  • Poor People – initial translated versions are known as "Poor Folk"; first novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Famous quotes containing the words poor people, poor and/or people:

    “Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    “No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)