Avarice Quote by Martin Amis

“The quantity of pleasure being equal, push-pin is as good as poetry.”

— Jeremy Bentham

“It’s a thorny road for dreamers and poets who fantasize of majestic places and deep-seated desires of the heart that their hands may never…

— Terry a O'Neal

“Gluttony - that's my vice & curse. I want too much of everything. Books... Love... Music... Color & Form... Philosophy... Travel & Adventure... the…

— Edward Abbey

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

“They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to things or…

— Thomas Cahill

“He's always had a nameless, unanchored longing; and when, at critical points in his life, a period of intense longing coincided with the appearance…

— Josephine Humphreys

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some time among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“There’s a poetry to it, engineer’s poetry…it suggests Haverie —average, you know—certainly you have two lobes, don’t you, symmetrical about the rocket’s intended azimuth……

— Thomas Pynchon

“...we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's…

— Janet Frame

“It was the wildness of it that got me going: the primal lust, the sheer needs of two people in heat, quickly finding ways…

— Fiona Thrust