Avarice Quote by Lucian

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

— Paul Eldridge

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

— Juvenal

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to…

— Samuel Johnson

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

— Lord Byron

To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.

— Thomas Browne

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

— Jonathan Swift

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice.

— Jake Roberts

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

There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

— Jonathan Swift

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

— Virgil

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld