Beggars And Kings Quotes

“I was, indeed, greatly irritated at the bishop's having suggested any grounds of suspicion, however remotely, against a person whom he had never seen: and I thought of letting him know my mind in Greek: which, at the same time that it would furnish some presumption that I was no swindler, would also (I hoped) compel the bishop to reply in the same language; in which case, I doubted not to make it appear, that if I was not so rich as his lordship, I was a far better Grecian.”
― Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater

“You claim to be made in the image of God. But in reality, we are all beggars before God.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo