Despise Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

— Francis Bacon

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

— Austin O'Malley

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

— Plutarch

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the…

— Roger L'Estrange

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

— Samuel Smiles

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.”

— Frances Burney

Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.

— Samuel Smiles

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

— Dick Gregory

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

— Eleanora Duse

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of…

— Matthew Henry

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

— Anonymous