Quotes About Wealth

A person couldn't be worthy of billions. It wasn't possible—not for anyone, and definitely not for me.

You've really never heard of this guy?" Thea asked. "He's rich and powerful and hates your family's guts, and you've never even heard his name?" "You know as well as I do," Grayson replied, "that there are different kinds of rich.

Why was my grandfather, a Texas billionaire with a whole host of private chefs on call, eating at a hole-in-the-wall diner in a small Connecticut town that no one's ever heard of?

The world bent to the will of Grayson Hawthorne. What money couldn't buy him, those eyes probably did.

Heiress you wound me" Jameson looked better smirking than anyone had a right to look.

And that was the nice thing about being the sole client of a multi-billion-dollar law firm.

I could understand why my mother's mother had called Tobias Hawthorne's fortune blood money. Had he left it to me in part out of guilt?

had spent a lifetime treating me like an afterthought, if that. I hadn't seen him in more than a year. But now that I'd inherited billions? There he was.

Everything is something in Hawthorne House.

Fancy meeting you here, Heiress." "You," I told him, "are the most annoying person on the face of the planet.

I knew that he had billions of reasons to want me now, when he'd never cared enough to stick around for either of us before.

Well then, Heiress. Game on.

Tobias Hawthorne left me the fortune—and all he'd left them was me.

It couldn't be a coincidence that billionaire Tobias Hawthorne had left his fortune to a stranger who knew his "dead" son.

Heiress, you wound me.

My grandfather told us that as you amass the kind of power and money he had-- things get broken.

as if it was perfectly reasonable to havea small bowling alley in one's house.

Why do people report themselves to be as happy as they were back when we all had less? Well, for one thing, we are comparing two societies that are both majestically wealthy in comparison to almost all societies throughout history. Neither the surveyed Americans of the 1950s nor those of the 2000s were struggling with endemic distress- hunger, pain, humiliation. And average people who are not in such distress are statistically more likely to call themselves happy than not.

And then … she had hardly looked beyond, but there was a great, summer-scented breeze blowing through her spirit, telling her she was young and fair, and wealthy into the bargain

Mais il avait oublié l'inventaire, il ne voyait pas son empire, ces magasins crevant de richesses. Tout avait disparu, les victoires bruyantes d'hier, la fortune colossale de demain. D'un regard désespéré, il suivait Denise, et quand elle eut passé la porte, il n'y eut plus rien, la maison devint noire.

Quem era o idiota que punha a felicidade deste mundo na repartição da riqueza?

This was the time when the rush for the spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.

They again kissed each other and fell asleep. The patch of light on the ceiling now seemed to be assuming the shape of a terrified eye, that stared wildly and fixedly upon the pale, slumbering couple who reeked with crime beneath their very sheets, and dreamt they could see a rain of blood falling in big drops, which turned into golden coins as they plashed upon the floor.

There she stood, by herself, amidst all her treasures, with a whole horde of men grovelling at her feet. Like those dreaded monsters of old whose lairs were littered with bones, she was walking on skulls and surrounded by cataclysms.