Avarice Quotes · Page 4

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

— Juvenal

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

— Michel de Montaigne

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

— B. C. Forbes

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

— John Oates

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

— Lord Byron

My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

— Emily Dickinson

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

— Isuna Hasekura

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

— Norm MacDonald

“Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my…

— Martin Amis

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most…

— Oliver Goldsmith

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

— C. S. Lewis

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like…

— Alexander Pope

“Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.”

— Rachilde

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their…

— Pliny the Elder

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his…

— Ouida

Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility…

— George Hickenlooper

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our…

— Seneca the Younger

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it…

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is…

— John Maynard Keynes

Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in…

— Adam Smith

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort…

— Michel de Montaigne

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man…

— Victor Hugo

“Now there was great rejoicing at the rumor of Alderic's quest, for all folk knew that he was a cautious man, and…

— Lord Dunsany

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

— John of Damascus

“Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not…

— Lord Dunsany

Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of…

— Helen Steiner Rice

“There is nothing more to chasing after wealth than the wastage of a person’s noble life for that which has no value.…

— Ibn Rajab The Evil of Craving for Wealth and Status

But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge…

— H. L. Mencken

I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

— E. B. Farnum

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.

— Publilius Syrus

Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.

— Alexander Pope

“When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.”

— Ron Chernow

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

— Livy

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

— Marya Mannes

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

— Joseph Addison