Begging Quotes

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. (Oscar Wilde)
If something happened to me, whose face will be on the front page of the paper begging for me? Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them? View quote
Melina Marchetta
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. View quote
Rod Taylor
My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. View quote
Kirk Douglas
I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down. View quote
Angelina Jolie
In a whisper he began begging for-and, as the sun set, received-the concession people always beg for: a little more time. View quote
Zadie Smith
Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation. View quote
Francis Galton
I, who ne'er Went for myself a begging, go a borrowing, And that for others. Borrowing's much the same As begging; just as lending upon usury Is much the same as thieving. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing. (Doris Lessing)
If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed by a pack of rats, let us at least face the death of our race as our ancestors faced their death - like man. Let us not crawl down amongst the rats begging for mercy or trying to out-sneak them and pretend to be rats ourselves! View quote
George Lincoln Rockwell
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. View quote
Francis of Assisi
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement. View quote
Markus Zusak
Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more. View quote
Markus Zusak
And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her. View quote
Meg Cabot
The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world. View quote
Ousmane Sembène
By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius) Desi dearest, I have never begged a day in my life, and the sun will surely splinter before I ever plead for anything from the likes of you. (Kyrian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me. (Dan Harmon)
Begging your pardon, sir....One population can't make peace with another by force. View quote
Gregory Maguire
Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it. View quote
Brenda Fassie
We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing. View quote
James McGreevey
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems. View quote
Pete Domenici