Avarice Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson Download Open image “Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.” — Anna Brownell Jameson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avarice Character Greed Intellect Moral Sensuality
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and… — Anonymous 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. The objects… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Sensuality, as long as it is straightforward did not repel him, but this derived sensuality - the sort that classes a mistress among motor-cars if she is beautiful, and among eye-flies if she isn't - was alien to his own emotions . . . It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of… — E.M. Forster Copy Share
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Satan--the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend--the enemy of all that is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the world-wide philanthropy… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. — Horace Copy Share Image
