Quotes About Wealth

color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes;

A hundred pounds," Mr. Barrow remarked succinctly. "All expensive material, and made at a Parisian modiste's. He spent money lavishly enough, that young man." Miss Minchin felt offended. This seemed to be a disparagement of her best patron and was a liberty. Even solicitors had no right to take liberties.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Honestly,' she said when they were out of Bruce's earshot, 'he's as bad in the kitchen as you are. What do you people do on the servant's night off, anyway?' Lila looked Jessica straight in the eye. 'Cold lobster and caviar,' she said earnestly.

What's more, he's just become the richest boy in Sweet Valley!

My mom used to say that a poor person who gave a dime to charity was more generous than a rich one who gave hundreds of dollars.

Though what is as sexy, as sweetly taboo as money? So secret, so unspeakable even among dear friends? How much did daddy leave you? How much did you get for that painting? How did you buy that fancy car with no visible means of employment? I have friends who tell me about every kinky sex act, the lies they tell, the crimes they commit, their intestinal complaints. But they shut up like bad shellfish when you ask what they paid for their house.

the floor was expensive cream-colored travertine

Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

Ni un solo instante apartó la mirada de Daisy; creo que revalorizaba todo cuanto había en su casa, de acuerdo con la medida de aprobación que leía en sus adorables pupilas. A veces miraba sus poseciones asombrado, como si en la real y sorprendente presencia de Daisy, nada fuera ya real.

Ni un solo instante apartó la mirada de Daisy; creo que revalorizaba todo cuanto había en su casa, de acuerdo con la medida de aprobación que leía en sus adorables pupilas. A veces miraba sus posesiones asombrado, como si en la real y sorprendente presencia de Daisy, nada fuera ya real.

Voi abitate a West Egg disse con fare sprezzante. Conosco qualcuno laggiù. Io non conosco nessuno. Dovete conoscere Gatsby. Gatsby? chiese Daisy. Che Gatsby?

Apartman u kojem je Devereux Warren spokojno slabio i gasnuo bio je jednako velik kao i onaj senora Parda y Cuidad Reala - u ovom je hotelu bilo mnogo soba u kojima imu?ne ruine, bjegunci pred pravdom, pretendenti na prijestolju razvlaštenih državica, žive na derivatima opijuma ili barbitola, vje?no slušaju?i neizbježan radio, surove napjeve starih grijeha. Ovaj kutak Europe ne privla?i toliko ljude, koliko ih prihva?a bez neugodnih pitanja.

Tom y Daisy eran criaturas desconsideradas: hacían añicos las cosas y personas y luego volvían a sus dinero o a su enorme desconsideración, o a lo que fuese que los mantenía unidos, y dejaban que otros se encargaran de limpiar lo que ellos ensuciaban.

La pelouse partait de la plage et grimpait sur cinq cents mètres jusqu'à la porte d'entrée, enjambait des cadrans solaires, des sentiers pavés de briques et des jardins flamboyants, atteignait enfin la maison et se brisait contre ses murs, dans une explosion de vigne vierge, comme emportée par son élan

One would think, to look at him, that he ought to be jolly; one might think, considering his enormous wealth, that he ought to be happy; but this was not the case.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

you can't buy security

You seldom learn the names of the truly wealthy and powerful. You see only their spokesmen. The political arena makes a few exceptions to this but does not reveal the full power structure.

Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed

we are so money-rich and so life-poor.

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…