Quotes About Avarice

Her avarice had grown to be her one dominant passion; her love of money for the money's sake brooded in her heart, driving out by degrees every other natural affection.

I should be the last to deny that the lordly prelates serve their own ambition and avarice before anything else; the higher their rank the more striking the contrast between the dignity of their office and their behavior.

Greed knows no bounds when it sinks its claws into people. – Rydberg

This is the sin that the avaricious confess to Dante. "Our eyes would never seek the height,/Being bent on earthly matters," so that "love of all true good was quenched in us/By avarice, and our works were left undone.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

There is nothing around me but money, money, money.

The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.

Locate an evil, and you'll find the love of money at or near the root of it.

When grace is replaced by greed, and generosity is displaced by avarice, there is no limit to the depths of evil that can result.

There are too many King Midases loose in the world. They do not have the Midas touch: they have the Midas look. They see nothing but money.... The universe, to them, is a balance-sheet: their minds are adding-machines: their hearts beat in tune with the ticker.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

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

I don't understand why very, very rich people want to have even more money than they've already got.

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

Greed, she thought, he was so greedy, but stupid too.

humans are endlessly stupid and greedy.

Avarice is not unknown in Italy, and Rinaldo Pazzi had imbibed plenty with his native air. But his natural acquisitiveness and ambition had been whetted in America, where every influence is felt more quickly, including the death of Jehovah and the incumbency of Mammon. When

And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say 'Gluttony'. They say 'Consumerism'.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.