Saint Patrick Quotes

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

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

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

… an avalanche of avarice

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

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

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.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

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

Greed is the worst thing.

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

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

I believe I was extremely greedy.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

… a creed of greed

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

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

Avarice, the spur of industry.

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