Avarice Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avarice Extremes Greed Humankind Vices
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life. — Edouard Rene de Laboulaye Copy Share Image
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing… — Polybius Copy Share Image
avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. — John Oates Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied. — Horace Copy Share Image
