[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home. — Lotte Hass Copy Share Image
Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we… — John A. Logan Copy Share Image
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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