Michael Drayton Quotes

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

And plenty makes us poor.

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Opulence is a crime

Affluence = abundant flow.

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

A strange species we are; we can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Avarice is always poor.

I stared at the enormous homes, the landscaping and flower beds immaculate. It was as if dollar bills, instead of leaves, hung from the trees.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

After the first million, money isn't important.