Quotes about Poverty

Tjaden: They tell me there's some people in this world take a bath every week.

- Slim Summerville (as Tjaden) in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Colonel Hugh Pickering: I'll have you know, Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins' intentions are entirely honorable!
Alfred P. Doolittle: Oh, 'course they are, guv'nor. If I thought they wasn't, I'd ask fifty.
Professor Henry Higgins: [shocked] You mean to say you'd sell your daughter for fifty pounds?
Colonel Hugh Pickering: Have you NO morals, man?
Alfred P. Doolittle: Nah. Nah, can't afford 'em, guv'nor. Neither could you, if you was as poor as me.

- Stanley Holloway (as Alfred P. Doolittle) in My Fair Lady (1964)

Eliza Doolittle: I ain't done nothin' wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb. I'm a respectable girl: so help me, I never spoke to him 'cept so far as to buy a flower off me.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Eliza Doolittle) in My Fair Lady (1964)