The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
APHORISM DUE TO PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Rich get richer; The rich get richer; The rich get richer, the poor get poorer; "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer"; Rich get richer and the poor get poorer
"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an aphorism due to Percy Bysshe Shelley. In A Defence of Poetry (1821, not published until 1840) Shelley remarked that the promoters of utility had exemplified the saying, "To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away.