“If God had meant me to marry a poor man, he would have made me homely.”
Denise Richards - Cindy Styne

“- Belle: Another year before our wedding, Ebenezer.
- Young Scrooge: Well, it can't be helped, Belle. How could we marry now? There's not even enough for a decent home. The investments haven't grown as they should.
- Belle: So you said last year.
- Young Scrooge: Business continues to be poor.”
Meredith Braun - Belle
Raymond Coulthard - Young Scrooge

“Rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“- John L. Sullivan: I'm going out on the road to find out what it's like to be poor and needy and then I'm going to make a picture about it.
- Sullivan's Butler: If you'll permit me to say so, sir, the subject is not an interesting one. The poor know all about poverty and only the morbid rich would find the topic glamorous.”
Joel McCrea - John L. Sullivan
Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler