Quotes About Wealth

And Ralph always wound up these mental soliloquies by arriving at the conclusion, that there was nothing like money.

What alone was wanting to the realization of a vast fortune, he considered to be More Capital. Those were the two little words, more capital. Now

In these times, when so wide a gulf has opened between the rich and the poor, which, instead of narrowing, as all good men would have it, grows broader daily; it is most important that all ranks and degrees of people should understand whose hands are stretched out to separate these two great divisions of society each of whom, for its strength and happiness, and the future existence of this country, as a great and powerful nation, is dependent on the other.

king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of loaves and fishes,

What do I mean?' said Bill. 'Why, THAT. All men are alike in the U-nited States, an't they? It makes no odds whether a man has a thousand pound, or nothing, there. Particular in New York, I'm told, where Ned landed.' 'New York, was it?' asked Martin, thoughtfully.

Sixpennorth of halfpence?

Natale una fesseria, zio?», disse il nipote di Scrooge; «sono sicuro che non pensi una cosa simile». «Certo che la penso», disse Scrooge. «Buon Natale! Che diritto hai tu di essere allegro? Che ragione hai tu di essere allegro? Sei povero abbastanza». «Andiamo, via», rispose allegro il nipote. «Che diritto hai tu di essere triste? Che ragione hai tu di essere scontento? Sei ricco abbastanza».

And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt, that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out!

and my first decided experience of the stupendous power of money was, that it had morally laid upon his back Trabb's boy.

V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in

He may not have money, but he always has what is much better—family, my dear.

There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.

VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head X. Two Promises XI. A

Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country IX. The Gorgon's Head

Sentimentalismos! No, no tengo tiempo para ello, pues me paso la vida ocupado en mover inmensas sumas de dinero.

For again Scrooge saw himself. He was older now, a man in the prime of life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years, but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall. He was not alone, but sat

There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going—none of 'em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.

It is but a glimpse of the world of fashion that we want on this same miry afternoon.… There is much good in it; there are many good and true people in it; it has its appointed place. But the evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller's cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun.

Lord Decimus. 'Mrs Merdle is. Mr Sparkler is, too. In fact,' said Mr Merdle, 'I rather believe that one of the young ladies has made an impression on Edmund Sparkler. He is susceptible, and—I—think—the conquest—' Here Mr Merdle stopped, and looked at the table-cloth, as he usually did when he found himself observed or listened to. Bar was uncommonly pleased to find that the Merdle

einst ein braver Mann namens Gottfried Nickleby, der sich ziemlich spät noch in den Kopf gesetzt hatte zu heiraten. Da er aber weder jung noch begütert war und daher nicht auf die Hand einer vermögenden Dame rechnen durfte, so verehelichte

What is the point of having all that money if you are never going to enjoy it?

Martin was very glad to hear this, feeling well assured that if intelligence and virtue led, as a matter of course, to the acquisition of dollars, he would speedily become a great capitalist.

Oh! there is an aristocracy here, then?' said Martin. 'Of what is it composed?' 'Of intelligence, sir,' replied the colonel; 'of intelligence and virtue. And of their necessary consequence in this republic—dollars, sir.

This, again, was among the fictions of Coketown. Any capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don't you go and do it?