Philip Massinger Quotes

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

It's all about the money. Write a check, and you can build anything you want.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

What is there that money will not do?

There is no fortification so strong that money cannot take it.

I can buy any man in the world.

Any fortress can be stormed provided there is a way up for a donkey with a load of gold on his back.

When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

Money speaks in Utah.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.