Avarice Quotes

161 Avarice quotes by 121 unique authors

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. — Cyril Connolly
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes. — Juvenal
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. — Thomas Browne
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains. — Scott Lynch
There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. — Paul Eldridge
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy. — Thomas Paine
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. — Stendhal
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one… — Francesco Guicciardini
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions… — Helen Steiner Rice
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. — Thomas Clarkson
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought… — Thomas Cole
Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust… — Charles Caleb Colton
In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last. — Marya Mannes
What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to… — Ambrose
How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive… — Ambrose
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices… — Seneca the Younger
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense. — Alexander Pope
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist,… — Alexander Pope
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke

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