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Avarice Quotes

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

Honore de Balzac
Poverty, Cease, Avarice
Honore de Balzac (2009). “Lost Illusions”, p.16, The Floating Press

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Benjamin Franklin
Luxury, Avarice Greed, Want
Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.17, Courier Corporation

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Pliny the Elder
Lust, Avarice Greed, Wealth

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Paul Eldridge
Gold, Consumerism, Avarice

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

E. B. Farnum
Stupidity, Avarice Greed, Sin

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Stendhal
Avarice Greed, Morality, Kind
Stendhal (1950*). “Stendhal on Love”

In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

Michel de Montaigne
Avarice Greed, Want, Abundance
"The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne".

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

George Edward Moore
Dream, Rich, Avarice

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

William E. Gladstone
Passion, Dominion, Avarice

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Sir Fulke Greville
Demise, Avarice

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Samuel Richardson
Taste, Bribe, Avarice
Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.138

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mind, Disease, Avarice

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Edmund Pendleton
Battle, Principles, Avarice Greed
Edmund Pendleton (1967). “The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803”

Avarice, the spur of industry.

David Hume
Spurs, Industry, Avarice
'Essays' (1741-2) 'Of Civil Liberty'

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Aristotle
Mankind, Insatiable, Avarice
Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

Thomas Clarkson
Eye, Retreat, Avarice
Thomas Clarkson, Ottobah Cugoano (2010). “Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species”, p.96, Broadview Press

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Horace
Suffering, Want, Avarice

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Benjamin Franklin
Saws, Should, Avarice
Poor Richard's Almanack, Nov. 1734

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

William Penn
Wall, Avarice Greed, Hazards
William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.832

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good.

Samuel Johnson
Chiefs, Policy, Avarice
Samuel Johnson (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson: maxims and observations. To which are now added, biographical anecdotes of the doctor, his life [&c.].”, p.333

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Juvenal
Gold, Increase, Avarice

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust!

James Otis
Wealth, Avarice
"The Class Book of American Literature". Book by John Frost, Lesson XLIX: Specimen of the Eloquence of James Otis i extracted from "The Rebels.", 1826.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

Honore de Balzac
Avarice Greed, Poverty, Ends

Avarice is always poor.

Samuel Johnson
Christian, Poor, Avarice
Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1787). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...”, p.21

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Generosity, Thrift, Avarice

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