There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Our luxuries have condemned us to weakness; we have ceased to be able to do that which we have long declined to do.

Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts

Such miserable creatures of circumstance are we all!

Luxury, nowadays, is ruinous. We criticize, but must conform, and superfluities in the end deprive us of necessities.

What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

It [Theresa May's Chequers plan] is a humiliation. We look like a seven-stone weakling being comically bent out of shape by a 500lb gorilla.

The contumelies of tyranny are the worst parts of it.

The most shameful, humiliating and disastrous of routs.

A parents' dissatisfaction causes poverty and leads to humiliation.

Part of being human is being on the verge of disgrace.