Charity Quotes

Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. (Jack London)
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. View quote
Washington Irving
Charity creates a multitude of sins. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. View quote
Davy Crockett
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. View quote
Thomas Browne
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. View quote
Walt Whitman
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins. (Horace Mann)
Charity begins at home, but should not end there. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. View quote
Maimonides
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. View quote
Ralph Nader
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. View quote
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
In charity there is no excess. View quote
Francis Bacon
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. View quote
George Sand
I hate nobody I am in charity with the world. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people. (Eduardo Galeano)
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there. View quote
Clare Boothe Luce
So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. View quote
Charles Dickens