Miserly Behavior Quotes

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.

I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords.