Financial Shame Quotes

I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

You won't believe it, but for the first two years of our marriage I lived off my wife. Like every self-respecting man, I hated it.

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

I think it's a Pew survey of Millennials, and the first one is that more and more Millennial-aged women are ashamed and embarrassed that they earn more than their husbands or boyfriends.

It is a sin to be poor.

No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

It's a bit embarrassing to be a deadbeat .... The United States should not be a deadbeat.

The secrecy surrounding wealth and the anxiety of talking about money is absurd. If you are rich and you live well and you spend money and it is an essential part of your lifestyle, then you shouldn't be ashamed of talking about it. You shouldn't be ashamed of it. And I think you should accept it and be honest and open about it.

The people who pawn stuff never want to be on the show. And the reason behind that, I find out, is when people are pawning something, it's - they're getting a loan. They have to admit they're broke. For some reason or the other, something has happened, or they're financially irresponsible.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Money embarrasses me.

It's true that in France there is always this ridiculous complex about money. Money is cursed, shameful, money disqualifies you . . . In America, even though it is a Protestant country, it's the opposite.