Beg Quotes

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. (Anatole France)
I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot. View quote
Oscar Wilde
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by. View quote
Conrad Aiken
Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him ! O these fashionable people! View quote
Frances Burney
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me. View quote
Johnny Depp
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon. View quote
Johannes Brahms
It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission. View quote
Lora Leigh
Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for. View quote
José Martí
They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again. (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi)
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
As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. View quote
George Washington
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. View quote
George Washington
I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating. View quote
Katie Couric
If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes. View quote
Arthur Conan Doyle
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. View quote
Bernard Berenson
For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive." (Plutarch)
A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll always be what he was born: a wild animal. View quote
George Lincoln Rockwell
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, "To get practice in being refused." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
We, ignorant of ourselves Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good so find we profit By losing of our prayers. View quote
William Shakespeare
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