Book Quote by Eleanor Porter

The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price.…

— Graham Greene

...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure,…

— Hermann Hesse

“Samuel thundered that no American factory hand was worth more than eighty cents a day. And yet he could be thankful for the opportunity…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Then, casting a glance on the handsome young man, who was scarcely twenty-five years of age, and whom he was leaving in his gore,…

— Anonymous

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

— George Bernard Shaw

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company…

— Charles Dickens

“It was not their inheritance that made him disdainful. Fortune was not antithetical to virtue. That part of the equation was a choice, and…

— Tara Makhmali

“Yes, he scorned his family’s decadent ways, but perhaps that wasn’t so much about the money per se , but rather the wastefulness of…

— Roberta Pearce

“Here are sixty thousand," replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank-bills. This had a prodigious effect on Andrew Speedy. An American…

— Jules Verne

I wouldn't have a face like that,' proceeded the child, with a good deal of earnestness, 'not if you gave me a million dollars.'…

— Anonymous

A dreadful thing is the love of money! It disables both eyes and ears, and makes men worse to deal with than a wild…

— John Chrysostom