Quotes About Avarice

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

The Root of evil Avarice, That damn ill-natur'd baneful vice, Was slave to Prodigality, That Noble Sin; whilst Luxury Employ'd a Million of the Poor, And odious Pride a Million more. Envy it self, and Vanity Were Ministers of Industry; Their darling Folly, Fickleness In Diet, Furniture, and Dress, That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made The very Wheel, that turn'd the Trade.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Le patron ? Un vrai juif ! Et vous savez, les juifs on ne les changera jamais. Quelle race ! Et il cita des traits étonnants d'avarice, de cette avarice particulière aux fils d'Israël, des économies de dix centimes, des marchandages de cuisinière, des rabais honteux demandés et obtenus, toute une manière d'être d'usurier, de prêteur à gages.

Despite his Falstaffian appearance he was a hard and ruthless man. His piggish eyes were filled with greed; his fleshy mouth was lustful; his only natural smile was one of avarice.

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.

Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.

The more one has, the less one desires.

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

La avaricia tiene muchos rostros, pero habla un solo idioma: el idioma del «más».

??nh cao c?a s? t?m th??ng chính là ti?n, b?i ai c?ng thèm khát nó.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

But just a minute, Mr. Poor Man; consider whether you can, in fact, enter. What if you're poor, and also happen to be greedy? What if you're sunk in destitution, and at the same time on fire with avarice? So if that's what you're like, whoever you are that are poor, it's not because you haven't wanted to be rich, but because you haven't been able to. So God doesn't inspect your means, but he observes your will.

But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.

To free oneself of ambitions and all forms of avarice: "Thirst for glory is the most futile of all, the most valueless and bogus currency known to man.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

All around them the cacophony of greed carried on in its most glorious and extreme excess.

I have nothing against rich brothers and sisters. Pray for 'em every day. But callousness and indifference, greed and avarice is something that's shot through all of us.

People want everything. That's their problem.

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

Therefore since money alone was able to perform all these feats, our Yahoos thought they could never have enough of it to spend or save, as they found themselves inclined from their natural bent either to profusion or avarice. That the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man's labour, and the latter were a thousand to one in proportion to the former. That the bulk of our people were forced to live miserably, by labouring every day for small wages to make a few live plentifully.

I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for.

All that beauty . . . and Daggrepont, ugliness personified, a fat, grotesque pouch of greed, avarice shining in his magnified eyes . . .

She did this not out of fear of him, but out of pity. Because she had come to see the ultimate terrible truth behind all others. Which was that the stupidity and avarice and hatred of mankind had finally begun to make him also stupid, avaricious, hating, and cruel beyond reason. Even though he was a god, a god of love.