Avarice Quotes

Where poverty ceases,
avarice begins.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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

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

Avarice, the spur of industry.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

Avarice is always poor.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.