Quotes About Avarice

Les avares ne croient point à une vie à venir, le présent est tout pour eux. Cette réflexion jette une horrible clarté sur l'époque actuelle, où, plus qu'en aucun autre temps, l'argent domine les lois, la politique et les mœurs.

Avarice, like love, has the gift of second sight, instinctively guessing at future contingencies, and hugging its presentiments.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

this man who had so much that he wanted even more.

One of the unfortunate things about greed ... is that, in the end, it will consume itself.

I promised myself that I would go through everything thoroughly; I would try the ceilings, and floors, and walls, and cornices to discover all the gold, hoarded with such passionate greed by a Dutch miser worthy of a Rembrandt's brush. In all the course of my professional career I have never seen such impressive signs of the eccentricity of avarice.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

You can never get enough of what you don't really want.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Just enough is always never enough for those whose minds crave more.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

More. Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.

Be ni...rds of advice on no pretense, For the worst avarice is that of sense.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

O accurst craving for gold!

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

but when the divine portion began to fade away, and became diluted too often and too much with the mortal admixture, and the human nature got the upper hand, they then, being unable to bear their fortune, behaved unseemly, and to him who had an eye to see grew visibly debased, for they were losing the fairest of their precious gifts; but to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power.

Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.