Avarice Quotations

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

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

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

This lawsuit, the first of a series anticipated against insurance abuses, shows particular arrogance and avarice in victimizing the state and its taxpayers,

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Frugality is one thing, avarice another.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

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

Money does not sate Avarice, but stimulates it.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

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

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

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

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

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Avarice is always poor.

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

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