Lucre Quotes

#1. Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

Sophocles

#2. Love. It doesn't change for any person to any person. It evolves.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#3. Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.

L. Tom Perry

#4. But wait, wait," Ivan was laughing, "don't get so excited. A fantasy, you say? Let it be. Of course it's a fantasy. But still, let me ask: do you really think that this whole Catholic movement of the past few centuries is really nothing but the lust for power only for the sake of filthy lucre?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. I didn't burn down anyone's house! I didn't. I wouldn't!"

Maddie looked at Jacob.

"You know I wouldn't. I didn't kill you when I had the chance!

Christina Dodd

#6. These exchanges are reported without comment by the East Roman historian Theophylact Simocatta (charmingly, his surname means 'the one-eyed cat').

Peter Heather

#7. All motives can be explained under the letter L: lust, lucre, loathing and love. They'll tell you the most dangerous is loathing but don't you believe it, boy; the most dangerous is love.

P.D. James

#8. Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the where-withal: call it what you like, money matters.

Niall Ferguson

#9. The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Edward De Bono

#10. Garlic is the catsup of intellectuals.

John Milner

#11. I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

Roland Barthes

#12. With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?

Swami Vivekananda

#13. Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

Nido R. Qubein

#14. And through it all was the pervasive sound of money. Money lost. Money found. Spent. Earned. Exchanged. Gambled. Wasted. Tainted lucre, wealth corrupted by those who found success on the suffering of others.

S.G. Night

#15. People without independence have no business to meddle with science. It should never be linked with lucre.

Edward Forbes

#16. I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics.

Robert Sikoryak

#17. Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Edward Dahlberg

#18. No flicker of amusement, no hint of fear. The woman could give Rowan a run for his money for sheer iciness.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.

T.D. Jakes

#20. nationalize the tertiary sector. The bourgeoisie, who wants the spirit of lucre

Frantz Fanon

#21. You must learn to wait properly ... By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind you so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension

Eugen Herrigel

#22. But I felt as if I'd just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn't used to, it was being ignored

Rick Riordan

#23. As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

Margaret Thatcher

#24. All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.

P.D. James

#25. There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Edward Dahlberg

#26. The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

Jonathan Galassi

#27. The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Edmund Burke

#28. That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

Dean Koontz

#29. I would appoint judges that interpreted the Constitution rather than invented it, understood the difference between being a judge and being a legislator.

Rudy Giuliani