Top 25 Avarice And Greed Quotes
#1. Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
Louis Faurer
#2. 'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
John Oates
#3. I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
Karen Joy Fowler
#4. What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#5. Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
Sara Coleridge
#7. Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton
#8. Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure
Michel Foucault
#10. Two hungry wolves let loose among sheep are not more harmful then a person craving after wealth and status is to his Deen (Religion).
Al-Haafidh Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee
#11. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
#12. Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.
Lillian Hellman
#13. The avarice, the hunger for materialistic possessions and the dependency upon alcohol had gradually become stronger and stronger. And now, it was the sum total of what she was.
Sue Fortin
#14. Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
David Hume
#15. Avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#16. When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
Alexander Hamilton
#17. Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
Lucian
#18. A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice.
Jake Roberts
#19. Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.
Mary Collyer
#20. Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people's home. ~ Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul
Angelica Hopes
#21. 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.
H.P. Lovecraft
#22. Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
Zhuangzi
#23. Greed and avarice have clouded their judgment,
Vernon Baker
#24. Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
Victor Hugo