quotations about avarice
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them;
Blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL
Satires
He was always ready to pick a halfpenny out of the dirt with his teeth.
PETRONIUS
Satyricon
But Avarice is like the hungry grave,
Insatiable, remorseless I and the wretch
Who there stands craving is her vilest slave.
JOSEPH JAMES
"Genora; or the Grave Robber"
Some men are called sagacious merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Essays on Men and Manners
True it is that avarice is rich, modesty starves.
PHAEDRUS
Fables
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.
FULKE GREVILLE
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical