Carriages Quote by Adam Smith

“The common complaint, that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people, and that the labouring poor will not now be…

— Adam Smith

“Only a short time ago hed envied these brightly plumed birds[ladies in pastel dresses]. They possessed everything money could buy and most had the…

— Cara Lynn James

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only…

— Saint Augustine

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

— Voltaire

“Goods of production—material or immaterial—such as land, factories, practical or artistic skills, oblige their possessors to employ them in ways that will benefit the…

— Libreria Editrice Vaticana

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury,…

— Samuel Johnson

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

— Leo Tolstoy

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them…

— Jean Cocteau

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

— Thorstein Veblen