“The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor—they never overlap, do they?See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?Losing weight and looking like the poor.”

The Sixth Night.
The White Tiger (2008)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor—they never overlap, do they?See, the poor dream all their lives of g…" by Aravind Adiga?
Aravind Adiga photo
Aravind Adiga 12
Indian journalist and author 1974

Related quotes

Sholem Aleichem photo
Glen Cook photo

“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”

Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)

Robert T. Kiyosaki photo
Karl Marx photo

“The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Attributed to Leo Tolstoy in Romance and Reality (1912) by Holbrook Jackson.
Misattributed

Milton Friedman photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo
John Steinbeck photo
William Cowper photo

“Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.”

Source: The Task (1785), Book III, The Garden, Line 265.

Related topics