Richard Burton Quotes

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

Avarice is always poor.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Money is evil.

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

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

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

A man who dies … rich, lies disgraced.

The ass loaded with gold still eats thistles.

… an avalanche of avarice

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.