Philanthropists

(247 votes)   Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(121 votes)   If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(106 votes)   To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(97 votes)   He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.

Douglas William Jerrold
1803-1857, British Humorist, Playwright

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(86 votes)   Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(83 votes)   Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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(81 votes)   All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

Ellen Key
1849-1926, Swedish Author, Feminist

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(78 votes)   The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(74 votes)   I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

W. S. Gilbert
1836-1911, British Librettist

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