Top 37 Quotes About Greedy Man
#1. Here is a greedy man who keeps to himself
The beautiful pears ripe in his garden.
Matsuo Basho
#2. Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.
Elise Blackwell
#3. I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.
Kid Rock
#5. The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
Norma McCorvey
#6. 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
#8. The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
E.F. Benson
#10. The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.
Saadi
#11. 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
#12. Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
Henry Ford
#13. Fear of want, no doubt, makes every living creature greedy and rapacious, and man, besides, develops these qualities out of sheer pride, which glories in getting ahead of others by a superfluous display of possessions.
Thomas More
#14. 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
#15. 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
#17. I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.
John Wayne
#18. Once upon a winter I met a man in the woods The man beckoned me over To see a satchel of goods He offered three wishes I asked for beauty, love, riches And he froze me in stone where I stood. - "The Greedy Ghost of Cypress Pass," common folk song
Marie Lu
#19. In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. I didn't feel like a man just then. I felt like a five-year-old boy who didn't want to do anything except play in a pile of leaves. A five-year-old boy with a greedy heart who wanted his grandmother to live forever.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#21. I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant.
Albert Camus
#22. Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.
Demitri Martin
#23. Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.
John Steinbeck
#24. From the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their healthcare, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right. A man's life, liberty and the products of his labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities.
Ilana Mercer
#25. A brave man in a brave country. It was easy to be brave, when the country was also brave. But what happened if it wasn't? If it was corrupt, and grotesque, and greedy, and violent?
Louise Penny
#26. I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
John Niven
#27. Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair, with very intelligent, cautious eyes, with a greedy mouth. Politely, the host and the guest greeted one another.
Hermann Hesse
#28. In truth, if I admitted to the world that I believe God made me as I am, the church would excommunicate me, but I know this to be true. I am not an evil man - nor greedy, nor cruel to those in need. Yet the law would have me hang for love, the purest of human emotions.
H.C. Brown
#29. Though he had not done much, perhaps, to improve the lot of man, he had never added to the world's misery. He had never been unkind or discourteous or greedy or dishonest.
Victoria Clayton
#30. Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld: the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trolley folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.
Terry Pratchett
#31. All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.
Marilyn Manson
#32. Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.
Lord Chesterfield
#33. Greed makes one want to get something he/she has not worked for
Sunday Adelaja
#34. The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.
Rhys Ifans
#35. This man would rob them graves himself, being some way starved by life, bone greedy.
Peter Matthiessen
#36. It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.
Hesiod
#37. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.
Sidney Sheldon
