Quotes About Avaricious

#1. If it is true that one is poor on account of all the things one wants, the ambitious and the avaricious languish in extreme poverty.

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

George Crabbe

#4. Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Voltaire

#5. Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

Aristotle.

#6. [Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Aristotle.

#7. An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth.
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Alexander Hamilton

#8. A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

Zeno Of Elea

#11. How incredibly avaricious the whole operation was, the way they made the Jews pay for their tickets in the railway cars to the death camps. Yeah, and the rates for a third-class ticket, one way. And half price for children ... It was a kind of exploration of evil. Just how bad can we get?

Martin Amis

#12. 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

#13. Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.

C.S. Lewis

#15. Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.

Sally Rand

#16. "The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

Thomas Aquinas

#17. Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who are Christ-killers. And this portrayal of Judas of course also leads then to horrendous acts of anti-Semitism through the centuries.

Bart D. Ehrman

#18. Glory, the casual gift of thoughtless crowds!
Glory, the bribe of avaricious virtue!

Samuel Johnson

#19. But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury. Moreover, a people becomes avaricious and luxurious by prosperity.

Augustine Of Hippo

#20. There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man
the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Henry Fielding

#21. Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Robert Walpole

#22. He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody.

Machado De Assis

#23. A science which is postulated on the assumption that human beings are avaricious through all eternity is utterly devoid of point (whether in problems of distribution or any other aspect) to a person who is not avaricious.

Osamu Dazai

#24. There are people who are avaricious parasites. There are psychotic geniuses in control of this planet, and to them human beings are only a commodity to be bought and sold and traded.

Alex Jones

#25. Is it not necessary for each to know for oneself what is the right means of livelihood? If we were avaricious, envious, seeking power, then our means of livelihood will correspond to our inward demands and so produce a world of competition, ruthlessness, oppression, ultimately ending in war.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#26. There's a long-standing debate in the media biz over whether the news outlets should give the public what it wants, or what it needs. This debate presupposes that media execs actually know what it wants or needs. And that there actually is a unitary "public.

Brooke Gladstone

#27. The busy man is busy with everything except living; there is nothing that is more difficult to learn how to do right.

Seneca.

#28. Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

Rose Of Lima

#29. It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

James Russell Lowell

#30. I'm a chai tea latte monster. Anything syrupy!

Suki Waterhouse