Avarice Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

— Thomas Browne

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

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

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

— Lord Byron

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

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

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

— Pliny the Elder

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

— Charles Caleb Colton

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects…

— Thomas Jefferson