"Down and Out in Paris and London" Quotes

The stars are a free show; it don't cost anything to use your eyes.

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops.

When you have no money, it is a very funny thing to see the shop windows full of things you want.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

An empty belly is the best cook.

There is no money left, and unless you can find some, the night will be very unpleasant.

I had a feeling that I was going to be lucky. Not the kind of feeling you have when you know you are going to win at cards, but a pleasant presentiment of something wonderful.

There are some things you can’t do in a bedsitting room. For instance, you can’t cultivate bees.

A man receiving charity practically always hates his benefactor — it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.