Wealth Envy Quotes

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

I love everything [Jessica Simpson] ever has on! Jessica can definitely come pick me up in her little Mercedes and take me shopping if she wants!

One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.

Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.

There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that away from you, mate". Whereas if his American counterpart saw a bloke drive past in a Cadillac he'd say "One day I'm going to own one of those". To my way of thinking the first attitude is wrong. The latter is right.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

These days the Jews have reached their dreams. They’re rich; they reign supreme…O Egyptians, here’s my advice to you. Turn Jewish, since the heavens have turned Jew!

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate them on their longevity, ask the secret of survival. A plump person is envied because they aren't scraping by like the majority of us. But here is different. Wrinkles aren't desirable. A round belly isn't a sign of success.

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him.'

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

Since biblical times, and probably before, the wealthy have been envied and condemned.