quotations about avarice
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Avarice reigns most in those who have but few good qualities to recommend them; it is a weed that will grow only in a barren soil.
JOHN HUGHES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
ANDREAS CAPELLANUS
De Amore
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
He was always ready to pick a halfpenny out of the dirt with his teeth.
PETRONIUS
Satyricon
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them;
Blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
JUVENAL
Satires
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