William Shakespeare Poverty Quotations

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

And makes me poor indeed.