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" I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. "
La Belle Assemblée - Page 112
1807
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The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq, Volume 5

Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 350 pages
...take cold, when the poverty season sets in — for it is but too true what some fine poet has said, that ' When Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window,' SONG.— Susan. Young Love liv'd once in a humble shed, Where roses breathing. And woodhines wreathing...
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Tracts in Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Lowndes - 1825 - 590 pages
...would have escaped the inexpressible miseries of wealth without love, and love without wealth. For when poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window. STANZAS Written on the Centinary Commemoration throughout Great Britain, of the glorious Revolution,...
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The soldier's orphan; or, History of Maria West, by a clergyman of the ...

Mary Martha Sherwood - 1826 - 174 pages
...would buy and sell with him any day. Love and a dry crust! I like that; no, no, 'tis a true saying, ' When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window;'—and so, good morning." Thus was this unsuspecting woman talked out of her goods, under the...
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The Lion [ed. by R. Carlile]., Volume 1

844 pages
...family." " Our forefathers had an excellent maxim, ' Do not wed until you have sped ;' and another, ' When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.' " The writer of those paragraphs considered nothing more than the moral motives, he did not consider...
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The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Letters

John Wesley - Methodism - 1830 - 528 pages
...he able to keep you ? I mean, in such a manner as you have lived hitherto. Otherwise, remember ! " When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window." Do you find as much as ever of the spirit of prayer, and of continual watchfulness ? Are you always...
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The Lives of the Players, Volume 1

John Galt - Acting and actors - 1831 - 324 pages
...became embarrassed, and those of his mistress's were in no better plight. It is an old saying, that, as Poverty comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window, and it was so in this instance. Miss Bellamy, though still under age, young, and beautiful, was already...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 12

1832 - 586 pages
...evils on himself, by marrying so early, and before he had laid by any thing. There is an old saying, that " when, poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the win-> dow:" and this proved the case with Thomas Kenchin: he had loved his wife when things went on...
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The Young Enthusiast in Humble Life [i.e. J. Jolly]. A Simple Story, with a ...

James Jolly - Children's literature - 1833 - 170 pages
...clouds of adversity frown upon them, when fortune changes, then the proverb is verified which says, ' When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.' On the contrary, the affections of the heart change not. In those who have married for love, no external...
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Cobbett's Weekly Register, Volume 86

Great Britain - 1834 - 428 pages
...from his earnings while single, the means of starting well in his new state of life ? The old saying, that " when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window," is perfectly true. And how is poverty to be kept out if there be nothing of any worth to begin, with...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 86

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1834 - 444 pages
...from his earnings while single, the means of starting well in his new state of life ? The old saying, that " when poverty comes in at the door, / love flies out at the window," jis perfectly : Jrue. And how is poverty fo~T>e~ltepl i out if there be nothing of any worth to begin...
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