Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing…

— Ambrose

How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you…

— Ambrose

The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There,…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

— Publilius Syrus

Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.

— Horace

Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the…

— John of Damascus

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it…

— Washington Irving

'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.

— John Oates

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy…

— Petrarch

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

— Honore de Balzac

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before…

— Tecumseh

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

— Anthony Trollope

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

In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing…

— Polybius