Avarice Quote by Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

— Immanuel Kant

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

— Raj Patel

It is in the nature of Smaland to be thrifty.

— Ingvar Kamprad

Thrift is that habit of character that prompts one to work for what he gets, to earn what is paid him; to invest a…

— Neville Chamberlain

Thrift is not some obsolete Victorian notion. . . . It will be the difference between those who prosper and achieve respect and those…

— Peter George Peterson

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental…

— Orison Swett Marden

It's smart to be thrifty.

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising…

— Oscar Wilde

Thrift: a way to spend money without having the least little bit of pleasure from it.

— Robert Lembke

There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not…

— James E. Faust

“So how do we sort it all out? The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in just one sentence. It is…

— Amy Dacyczyn