Lucre Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

P.D. James

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Frantz Fanon

#9. 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

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

Edward Forbes

#11. 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

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

Swami Vivekananda

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

Niall Ferguson

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Dean Koontz

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

T.D. Jakes

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

Sarah J. Maas

#21. 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

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

Nido R. Qubein

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

Roland Barthes

#24. Garlic is the catsup of intellectuals.

John Milner

#25. 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

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

Peter Heather

#27. 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

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

L. Tom Perry

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

Bhavik Sarkhedi