Money Quotes

"I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know)." ~ The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope "Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. ~ The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry "Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor." ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune." ~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire. What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown earth!... The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires. ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. ~ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift "Simple, generous goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us." ~ Little Men by Louisa May Alcott Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime; it taints the course of life in all its dreams. ~ Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli "There is no such thing as unmixed evil. A man who loses his money gains, at least, experience, and sometimes something better." ~ The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli