28 Movie Quotes about Poverty (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Aug 24, 2025

Memorable quotes about poverty, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 I am from Moldavia. My country is very poor, you see. So in order to make money, we have decided to encourage tourism. We need this banana in order to open a fruit stand.

Lorenzo Music as Garfield in Garfield's Feline Fantasies

22 Once we were just shepherds, and so poor, we felt lucky to eat. And so peaceful, we kissed the hand that whipped us.

Steve Reeves as Romulus And Remus; Steve Reeves as Romulus in Duel of the Titans (1961)

23 All our lives we have seen our women suffer: poverty, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery. -We have seen nothing else. -We have borne this a long time.

Betty Garde as Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

24 That's an insult. I got a vow of poverty.

Quote from The Exorcist

25 Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

26 I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again. Before the war and poverty had done things to you.

Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939)

27 That man is a product of a poor environment.

Dan Aykroyd as Louis Winthorpe in Trading places (1983)

28 For far too long, the wrong roads have been taken. The wrong roads have led us into war, into poverty, into unemployment and inflation.

Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976)

28 Movie Quotes about Poverty (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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