Avarice Quotes

“Avarice is patriotic!”

— William Donaldson

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

— Anonymous

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

— Horace

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

— Honore de Balzac

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

— Matthew Green

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

— William Wordsworth

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

— Thornton Wilder

Avarice is a deadly sin.

— Saint Patrick

I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

— Thomas Browne

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

— Roger L'Estrange

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

— Horace

I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

— Ben Jonson

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

— Thomas Clarkson

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

— Jonathan Swift

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

— Anonymous

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

— William Shenstone

“The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was…

— Sue Fortin

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

— Edmund Pendleton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

— Anonymous

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

— St. Catherine of Siena

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

— John Calvin

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or…

— Seneca the Younger

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse…

— Agnes Repplier

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth…

— Anonymous

Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or…

— Joseph Addison

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or…

— John Adams

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have…

— Emily Dickinson

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink.…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that…

— David Hume

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be assuming the shape…

— Émile Zola

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?…

— Tecumseh

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with…

— Seneca the Younger

When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar,…

— Francis Parkman

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.…

— John Quincy Adams