Charles Barkley Quotes

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

I could never fall in love just for money. I like my co-stars, and they are a bunch of good-looking men. But I've dated an actor. My dream man has to be a lot more than just good looking and rich!

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

Some people are really, really attracted to looks first, or money, or things like that.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that truly has been held up to us in society as a thing that determines whether we are successful, worthy, whether we have contributed something to life or not.

Money enhances a man, yes, as beauty enhances a woman.

Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich -that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.

Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.

People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.

Being rich and thin isn't everything.

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

Money is a great dignifier.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

To not care about how you look will make you look even more attractive.