Wealthy Quotes
483 Wealthy quotes by 402 unique authors
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels…
— Alan Lightman
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To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
— Confucius
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She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not…
— William Ellery Channing
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The only type of men Julia's mother had warned her about were wealthy industrialist who polluted the environment and took advantage of third-world countries. And…
— Cathie Linz
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The Challenge is to pry Bertie loose from Dain and his circle of oafish dengenerates,†Jessica said severely. “It would be far more profitable to…
— Loretta Chase
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I love you too much to lie to you, Lisey. I love you with all that passes for my heart. I suspect that kind of…
— Stephen King
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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can…
— Tessa Dare
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Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant…
— Karen Marie Moning
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The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he…
— Stacy Schiff
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Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone…
— Kristin Cashore
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The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for…
— Howard Zinn
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I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
— E. M. Forster
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Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.
— Gail Carriger
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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles…
— Jared Diamond
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Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system…
— Paul Krugman
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but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Wealthy Quotes
402 authors contributed a total of 483 Wealthy Quotes, led by these top contributors: