Top 39 Greed Avarice Quotes
#1. The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
Frederick Lenz
#2. 'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
John Oates
#3. Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.
David Hume
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#8. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
#9. 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
#10. From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure
Michel Foucault
#11. 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
#12. The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Horace
#13. Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ...
Sophia Lee
#14. Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton
#15. There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Jonathan Swift
#17. Original art emanates in the mind ... and lessons society's confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.
Louis Faurer
#18. Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
Sara Coleridge
#19. What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#20. Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#21. 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
#22. The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
Charles Caleb Colton
#24. Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.
Victor Hugo
#25. Greed and avarice have clouded their judgment,
Vernon Baker
#27. Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
Zhuangzi
#28. 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
#29. So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Lord Byron
#30. To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
William Penn
#31. Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.
E. B. Farnum
#32. 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
#33. A victim of your own greed..wallowing in the muck of avarice.
Jake Roberts
#34. Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.
Kenneth Patchen
#35. Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.
Publilius Syrus
#36. 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
#38. When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall.
Alexander Hamilton
#39. 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
