W. H. Auden Quotes

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Get the money out fast and do it honestly.

A real man won't ask or answer questions about another man's money.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

I heard a Lannister always pays his debts." "Oh, every penny....but never a groat more. You'll get the meal you bargained for, but it won't be sauced with gratitude, and in the end it will not nourish you.

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

I do have limits on my money. I like calling my mom to ask, "Can I have that?" Because I know I can be spending my money more wisely.

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

I never count my money. I think that's your job.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.

We have now learned that rashness and imprudence will not be deterred from taking credit; let us try whether fraud and avarice may be more easily restrained from giving it.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.

Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.

Everything of real value is in my financial disclosure form.

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.