Charity Quote by Voltaire

Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.

— Anonymous

The man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was his to administer during his life, will pass away unwept, unhonoured…

— Andrew Carnegie

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

— Edward Dahlberg

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into…

— James Anthony Froude

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

— George Orwell

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

— Henry Taylor

Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES

— Gregory Ramkissoon

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom…

— William Hazlitt

“Charity is giving to someone what he needs versus what you want to give him.”

— Patricia Cornwell

He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his…

— Francis Bacon Sr

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

— Charles Caleb Colton