Top 100 Quotes About Avarice
#1. Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.
Victor Hugo
#2. He is a man-beast, carnivore incarnate, motivated by carnal avarice and wearing only the mask of civility.
She could sip from that cup.
It is his presumption that deters her: his belief that he has already caught Maud in his paw.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#3. 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
#4. As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.
Philip Neri
#5. My brother is undoubtedly arrogant," Tyrion Lannister replied. "My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?
George R R Martin
#6. Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
Joseph Addison
#7. Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Charles Caleb Colton
#8. Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Livy
#9. Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
Sir Fulke Greville
#10. Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.
Maximus The Confessor
#11. When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
Baron De Montesquieu
#12. Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Horace
#13. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
Bill Watterson
#14. Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
Edmund Burke
#15. I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
Jan Hus
#16. Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#17. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
Jonathan Swift
#18. He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.
Philip Neri
#19. Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?
Jane Austen
#20. I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Thomas Browne
#21. Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
Charles Caleb Colton
#22. Money has an amazing power and an avarice for the same can even change your worst mood to an ebullient one.
Ankita Kapoor
#23. The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
Seneca The Younger
#24. Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly
#25. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
Charles Horton Cooley
#26. Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My
Maya Angelou
#27. We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.
Samuel Johnson
#28. The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.
Voltaire
#29. My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
Mason Cooley
#30. Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#31. Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis De Sade
#33. Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
Samuel Johnson
#34. You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.
Samuel Johnson
#35. An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.
Agnes Repplier
#36. My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.
Emily Dickinson
#37. Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice.
Robert A. Norman
#39. It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
George Washington
#41. Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it
Samuel Johnson
#42. The path of love has many opponents - fear, self-pity, anxiety, hate, lust, greed, avarice - all the usual freinds.
Frederick Lenz
#43. Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ... man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#44. If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries.
[Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#45. 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
#46. There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.
David Hume
#47. All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
Karl Marx
#49. The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Horace
#50. Avarice is rarely the vice of youth ...
Sophia Lee
#51. Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.
Rachilde
#52. In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.
John Milton
#53. The Planet Earth is a cesspool of avarice and apathy.
Robert Peate
#54. When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#55. Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#56. The current regulations -- for companies, doctors and researchers -- create perverse incentives; and we'll have better luck fixing those broken systems than we will ever have trying to rid the world of avarice
Ben Goldacre
#57. Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
Juvenal
#58. [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
Ouida
#59. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil.
John Steinbeck
#60. We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
Dorothy Day
#61. There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#62. Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
Thomas Jefferson
#63. What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!
James Otis
#64. Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
Seneca The Younger
#65. The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader.
Penelope Lively
#66. 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
Thomas Harris
#67. We find in them an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched. Still, we ought not to burn them.
Voltaire
#68. Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#69. Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
Juvenal
#70. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Thomas Paine
#71. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
William Wordsworth
#72. 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
#73. Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
Rumi
#74. Three sparks
pride, envy, and avarice
have been kindled in all hearts.
Dante Alighieri
#75. Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin.
Charles Baudelaire
#77. Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman ... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Andreas Capellanus
#78. 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
#80. To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
Thomas Browne
#81. Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton
#82. Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
Horace
#83. There is no vice which humankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
Jonathan Swift
#85. Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.
Michael Horton
#86. There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
Seneca The Younger
#87. Avarice, he assured them, was the one passion that grew stronger and sweeter in old age.
Willa Cather
#89. Be niggards of advice on no pretense; For the worst avarice is that of sense.
Alexander Pope
#90. Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.
Joseph Addison
#91. Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance ... the taproot ... the killer's ultimate and truest motivation ... is the hatred of truth ... the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.
Dean Koontz
#92. Avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.
Sara Coleridge
#93. It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
Seneca The Younger
#94. The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.
Aristotle.
#95. If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
John Vianney
#97. What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#98. We wither from our youth; we gasp with unslaked thirst for unattainable good; lured from the first to the last by phantoms - love, fame, ambition, avarice - all idle, and all ill - one meteor of many names, that vanishes in the smoke of death.[8]
Thomas Love Peacock
#100. Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
R. Scott Bakker
