Quotes about Wealth
Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): "Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The rich do not act improperly if they before others take possession of property that was in the beginning common and share the property with others. But the rich sin if they indiscriminately prevent others from using the property.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
— Donald Trump
Rich people, for example, are often angry because they suspect that the poor want to seize their wealth.
— Virginia Woolf
She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich, with a smattering of culture.
— Virginia Woolf
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
— Charles Dickens
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
— Charles Dickens
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
— Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
— Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery
— Charles Dickens
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
— Charles Dickens
The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of truer metal and bear the stamp of Heaven.
— Charles Dickens