Avarice Quotes · Page 2

Avarice is always poor.

— Samuel Johnson

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

— Horace

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

— Anthony Trollope

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice is rarely the vice of youth.

— Sophia Lee

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

— Seneca the Younger

“For avarice begins where poverty ends.”

— Honoré de Balzac

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

— Ben Jonson

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

— Dante Alighieri

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

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

— Thomas Browne

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

— Albert Einstein

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

— William Shenstone

If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.

— Georges Courteline

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.

— Charlie Chaplin

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question:…

— John Steinbeck

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

— George Bernard Shaw

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels…

— Karl Marx

If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice,…

— Anonymous

Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride;…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Ambrose

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they…

— Seneca the Younger

Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries…

— Henry Fielding

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in…

— John Steinbeck

The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance. Where there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger…

— Francis of Assisi

“From the subtle afflictions caused by love of status is seeking after and aspiring positions of authority – this is something whose…

— Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status

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

— Polybius

And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the…

— Thomas Cole

If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly.…

— Robert Bolt

Jesus Christ and all the writers of the New Testament call us to break free of mammon lust and live in joyous…

— Richard J. Foster

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

— Rumi