Avarice Quotes

161 Avarice quotes by 121 unique authors

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at… — Sherwood Anderson
Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. — Dante Alighieri
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them! — Emily Dickinson
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself… — John Vianney
The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds. — Frederick Lenz
Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is… — Jean de la Bruyere
Where poverty ceases, avarice begins. — Honore de Balzac
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. — Erich Fromm
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. — Erich Fromm
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. — Charles Caleb Colton
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Instant gratification takes too long. — Carrie Fisher
It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. — Elbert Hubbard
Avarice, the spur of industry. — David Hume
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul… — John Maynard Keynes
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as… — John A. Logan
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. — Malcolm X
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual… — Petrarch
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice,… — Marquis de Sade
Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. — William Wordsworth
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in… — John Steinbeck

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