Top 100 Quotes About Greedy
#1. We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.
Zweli Mkhize
#2. No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. Faces and faces, served out like soup-plates by scullions; coarse, greedy, casual; looking in at shopwindows with pendent parcels; ogling, brushing, destroying everything, leaving even our love impure, touched now by their dirty fingers.
Virginia Woolf
#4. We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
Chief Joseph
#5. How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who's taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found peace from all my war! How
Francesco Petrarca
#6. You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages.
Mark Pagel
#7. If you are honest, hardworking, reasonably intelligent and have good common sense, you can do well in the investment field as long as you are not too greedy and don't get too emotional when things go against you.
Walter Schloss
#8. Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.
Delia Sherman
#9. A greedy insistence that the whole of nature and life must present itself to our voracious demand for instantaneous intelligibility is a symptom of all world-shrinking ideology, whether religiously fundamentalist or scientifically materialist. In
John F. Haught
#10. They say I'm greedy, but I still want more, cause my eyes want to journey.
Snoop Dogg
#11. Private citizens and companies are always seen as evil and greedy, because they want to profit. But the government picks your pocket any chance it can get, but they're never called greedy.
Greg Gutfeld
#12. We talked about how terrible the natural world could be. Of course, the bamboo is only doing what it must. Everything obeys it's own inner laws. Everything is greedy and moving toward a version of light.
Lauren Oliver
#14. I bleed passion. I'm not entirely sure what this means but I'm greedy over the words. They're so full of life. And I really need some life to balance out the desperate allure of the dark.
Marley Jacobs
#15. Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve ... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.
Eric Maisel
#16. I'm attracted to intelligence and creativity and passion - and not necessarily the romantic kind. I want to learn from someone who is greedy for information and light and laughter and the whole world. Someone who celebrates their days and finds inspiration in what other people accomplish.
Renee Zellweger
#17. For the greedy there will be no tomb
Ptahhotep
#18. I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.
John Wayne
#19. In his love for the world, the greedy is like the silkworm: the more it wraps in its cocoon, the less it has of escaping from it, until it dies of grief.
Muhammad Al-Baqir
#21. In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense, they were the first American irrigators of any significance. And their knowledge about the art of applying water to land has spread throughout the world.
Stuart Campbell
#22. Just last night, I was troubled by a decision involving an eyedropper, a greedy night watchman, and a tray of individual custards, and this morning I am so tired that I can scarcely type these worfs.
Lemony Snicket
#23. I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Walter Annenberg
#24. People are just greedy animals, after all.
Joe Meno
#25. Don't hide it on my account," he growled. "You have the most damnably beautiful punctuation that I have ever seen. You make a man feel greedy.
Courtney Milan
#26. Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?
Bernie Sanders
#27. Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.
Mark Cuban
#28. Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.
Marie Corelli
#29. There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy.
Max Von Sydow
#31. We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.
Jessica Khoury
#32. You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.
Terry Pratchett
#33. For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
Margaret Atwood
#34. I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
Mary Quant
#35. Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving
Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.
John Irving
#37. Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.
Andy Stanley
#38. Tyler was just like any other girl now. She was manipulative and greedy. She was a witch in fucking sexy high heels.
Jaimie Roberts
#39. She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
George R R Martin
#40. He was suspicious, distrustful and greedy, as only a brother could be.
Peter James West
#41. I then watched filing past and besieging me old men in search of easy revenue, young men in search of adventure to occupy their leisure. My successive refusals gave me in town the reputation of a 'lioness' or 'mad woman.' Who let loose this greedy pack of hounds after me?
Mariama Ba
#42. I have achieved a lot and I'm grateful for that - I'm just a bit greedy because I want to add the Olympics. It's once every four years - everyone wants it and very few people get it.
Paula Radcliffe
#44. Humans don't just kill to survive. Sometimes, they kill out of rage. And they don't just eat to survive; sometimes, they eat when their belly is already full. They are violent and greedy. They aren't like any of the other beasts in the forest; they want to own it all.
Mark Van Steenwyk
#45. I believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientations that need accountability. That's why democracies are necessary. We have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities don't get out of hand.
Cornel West
#46. I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.
Doris Haddock
#48. If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.
Satish Kumar
#49. As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.
Bill Nighy
#50. Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
Pope Benedict XVI
#51. the majority of those in government were unprincipled, greedy, bigots and he wanted no part of that. If you weren't on the side of corruption taking place and the back room deals, you were not in the circle of power. Maybe one day after the US cleaned its house,
Toni Mariani
#52. The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.
Habeeb Akande
#53. There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
Beck
#54. Darlin' you're the greediest piece of ass I've had in my bed in a long fuckin' time. I got a taste for greedy, you think I'm not gonna take it?
Kristen Ashley
#55. You're just a natural beehive, filled with honey to the top. Well, I ain't greedy baby, all I want is all you got.
Elvis Presley
#56. What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the whole world with an army? What a primitive dream you have! To earn millions of dollars? What a greedy dream you have! Question your dreams!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Being rich has never stopped anyone from being greedy.
Tami Hoag
#58. We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.
Terry Crisp
#59. People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
George Aiken
#60. Was she jealous?" "She was," he said, not yelling now, "and domineering, and spoiled, and suspicious, and greedy, and mean, and unscrupulous, and deceitful, and selfish, and damned bad - altogether damned bad!
Dashiell Hammett
#62. O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting me with their own lives. They deserve a martyr to care for them - not a man like me, who loves all the wrong things.
Graham Greene
#63. I am greedy, and most importantly, game for what's next.
Shirley Manson
#64. Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.
Warren Buffett
#65. One phrase stuck in Fainy's mind, and he repeated it to himself after he had gone to bed that night: It is time for all honest men to band together to resist the ravages of greedy privilege.
John Dos Passos
#66. At first, I thought it was only your body I wanted. But something about you has made me greedy as hell. I want everything. Your love. Your mind. Your secrets. Your soul.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#67. When did that higher, more spiritual conviction become something craven and greedy? And then again when did that greed transform itself into something worse, something less of the instinct and more closely related to the higher faculties?
Alaa Alghamdi
#68. All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.
Billy Connolly
#69. I don't understand anorexia; I'm too greedy to ever not eat ... I just can't do it.
Keshia Knight Pulliam
#70. I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.
Lon Milo DuQuette
#71. Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#72. Get rid of the idea that to own money or to be associated with it is "dirty" or "greedy" or "non-spiritual.
Christopher Dines
#73. I'm not greedy. I just want one person. The world is so big and there are so many people. But I only want one.
Elise Valmorbida
#74. The politician dispenses wealth which other men have produced, and we say he is "compassionate," while the businessman who produces the wealth is dismissed as "greedy" and "materialistic.
R.W. Grant
#75. The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.
Maya Angelou
#76. People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.
Laurence Sterne
#77. It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it.
Kathleen Glasgow
#78. For ambitious and greedy, there exists no summit, but only climbing up perpetually.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.
May Sarton
#80. There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a perverse bitch. And then there's the one who is currently residing in my house."
"And what is she like?"
"Intelligent... sweet... gentle. Most men's fantasy.
Lisa Kleypas
#81. Would you rather be poor and sated, or rich and hungry? Prosperity is not only greedy, but it also lies exposed to the greed of others. And as long as nothing satisfies you, you yourself cannot satisfy others.
Seneca.
#82. Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.
Juvenal
#83. I've been in Vegas. That's where you get into the money thing. Boy, you get greedy in Vegas, you know. That's the only place that you can bet $25, get it up to $500 and refuse to quit.
Louie Anderson
#84. I'm not greedy at all. Sometimes I pinch myself because of what I've got.
Amy Childs
#86. Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?
Philip Berrigan
#87. No opinions, no ideas, no real knowledge of anything, no ideals, no inspiration; a fat, slothful, querulous, greedy, impotent carcass; a stump, a decaying belly washed up on the shore ... Always tired, always bored, always hurt, always hating.
Cyril Connolly
#88. I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.
Park Dietz
#89. We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.
Jasmine Guinness
#90. No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
Gillian Jacobs
#91. Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
Elizabeth Edwards
#92. The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
Gavid Hood
#93. I demand what I deserve, so you can't call me Greedy.
Unknown
#94. He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not. 'Oh,
J.M. Barrie
#95. It's simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what's wrong with them, but why bother?
Charles Lee
#96. The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.
Wendell Berry
#97. Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy
Ronald Reagan
#98. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
Ivan Boesky
#99. Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand
Robert Allen
#100. Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world ... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.
Christopher Hitchens
