Quotes About Wealth

Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion.

Think of it—all ours, to do as we like with, for as Harold Skimpole so rightly observes, £60 saved is £60 gained, and I'd reckoned on spending it all.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there.

I haven't time and I don't want the money. Why should I? I'm not a dean or an actress.

Beautiful people are often rather boring, don't you think? Less beautiful people might rather like to think so, said Harriet. But you know what I mean, my dear. All those wealthy men choosing a wife like a piece of furniture or a fine picture, to furnish the house, and then having to listen to her at breakfast twenty years later.

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.

Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

I've never been a millionaire but I know I'd be just darling at it.

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn....

You can't take it with you, and even if you did, it would probably melt.

LINSCOTT: Well, I don't like it. Man works damn hard, leaves his wife all his money, and some pretty boy comes along and gets it. Sometimes I think those old East Indians had the right idea about widows. Cremate the husbands and burn up the wives along with them. CONNIE: Maybe it would be simpler to burn up the money.

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I'd be darling at it.

the number of imaginary sheep in this world remains a matter of guesswork, who is richer or poorer for it? No, sir; I'm not their scorekeeper. Let them count themselves, if they're so crazy mad after mathematics. Let them do their own dirty work. Coming around here, at this time of day, and asking me to count them!

Non sono mai stata milionaria, ma so che sarei brava a esserlo.

Anyway, maybe it's only somebody that just died and left you twenty million dollars. Maybe it isn't some other woman at all.

The law made slave women's children the property of the slaveowner. White masters therefore could increase their wealth by

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

You're paid a lot and you're not happy, so the first thing you do is buy stuff that you don't want or need—for which you need more money.

And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore the fault of the worlds they'd settled on.

Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor – at least no one worth speaking of.

What are you after? ... Well, said Zaphod airily, It's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money....

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