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If Judas had only been a well-to-do man, he might have been Saint Judas this day, instead of cursed Judas.
~ Diary of a Pilgrimage
Years ago, when my whole capital would occasionally come down to "what in town the people call a bob," I would recklessly spend a penny of it, merely for the sake of having the change, all in coppers, to jingle. You don't feel nearly so hard up with eleven pence in your pocket as you do with a shilling.
~ Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
I can speak with authority on the subject of being hard up. I have been a provincial actor. If further evidence be required, which I do not think likely, I can add that I have been a "gentleman connected with the press."
~ Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
One becomes used to being hard up, as one becomes used to everything else, by the help of that wonderful old homeopathic doctor, Time.
~ Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
There are degrees in being hard up. We are all hard up, more or less--most of us more.
~ Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Try it just before you get married. It will be excellent practice. Let your son and heir try it before sending him to college. He won't grumble at a hundred a year pocket-money then.
~ Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty--to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.
~ Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
To me, I confess the constant necessity of drinking under which the majority of men labor is quite unaccountable. I can understand people drinking to drown care or to drive away maddening thoughts well enough. I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink--oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course--very shocking to us who live in cozy homes, with all the graces and pleasures of life around us, that the dwellers in damp cellars and windy attics should creep from their dens of misery into the warmth and glare of the public-house bar, and seek to float for a brief space away from their dull world upon a Lethe stream of gin.
~ Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
You never see a rich or aristocratic comic man on the stage. You can have your choice on the stage; you can be funny and of lowly origin, or you can be well-to-do and without any sense of humor.
~ Stage-Land