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Quotes About Wealth

The one percent get nasty when their assets are threatened.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The reporter said, Why do you rob banks? And Sutton replied, Because that's where the money is.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Yoksul ayd?n, zengin ayd?ndan çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)
~ Knut Hamsun
El inteligente pobre es un observador mucho más fino que el rico inteligente. El pobre mira a su alrededor a cada paso que da, espía suspicazmente cada palabra que oye a las gentes que encuentra; a cada paso que da él mismo impone a sus pensamientos y sus sentimientos un deber, una norma. Tiene el oído fino, es impresionable, es un hombre experimentado, su alma tiene quemaduras.
~ Knut Hamsun
I was telling my wife a story about a rich man who was curious, too. He shot himself just to find out what comes after death. Ha, ha, ha! That's the height of curiosity, isn't it? Shooting yourself to find out what comes after death!
~ Knut Hamsun
I've got a fortune in gold. Ah, was that a flicker in your eye? Do you like me better now that you know I'm rich?" He curled his finger under her chin. "Because I'm all right with that.
~ Kresley Cole
Stealing money from humans is rewarding both financially and spiritually.
~ Kresley Cole
What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim?
~ Kresley Cole
He looked like a normal gorgeous young man, who was at home here amidst all this wealth. Like the heir to a fortune. Highborn. And still, my first impulse was to stab him with a table knife.
~ Kresley Cole
Not even going to discuss this. I'm going to stay in my gold house and sleep on my gold bed and ski down my piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck.
~ Kresley Cole
Do you have any idea how high you reach for one such as her?" In fact, he was well acquainted with that idea. Though Kaderin abhorred what he was, he couldn't be more pleased with her. When she'd hopped up onto this altar next to Riora, he'd seen that the goddess had nothing over his Bride. Still, he raised his chin. "I have wealth to spoil her and strength to protect her. She could do worse for a husband.
~ Kresley Cole
Money expedited delivery.
~ Kresley Cole
You are both rich my friends ... And your riches are the only riches worth having, the riches of content.
~ L. Frank Baum
You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.
~ L. Frank Baum
For I consider brains far superior to money, in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.
~ L. Frank Baum
It wouldn't matter, remarked the educated Woggle-Bug. he can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
~ L. Frank Baum
poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared.
~ L. Frank Baum
I have been safe from molestation for many years, because I was poor and possessed nothing that anyone else could envy. But if you make me rich and prosperous I shall at once become the prey of thieves and marauders and probably will lose my life in the attempt to protect my fortune.
~ L. Frank Baum
In money matters no relationship counts; money hardens all hearts.
~ Matilde Serao
I met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship.
~ Kola Boof
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.
~ Khushwant Singh
The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
~ George Orwell
Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.
~ Vera Caspary