{"id":2324,"date":"2013-04-12T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2016-07-31T18:27:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:27:03","slug":"ten-quotes-about-money-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/ten-quotes-about-money-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Quotes About Money From Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2325\" style=\"margin: 0px 30px 20px 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/money.jpg\" alt=\"money\" width=\"250\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/money.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/money-91x120.jpg 91w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/money-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here are ten quotes from literature about money.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i> Little Men<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Louisa May Alcott<\/p>\n<p><b>But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>The Woman in White<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Wilkie Collins<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks. And when they&#8217;re gone we can&#8217;t tell where&#8211;or what the devil we did with &#8217;em!&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>The Magnificent Ambersons<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Booth Tarkington<\/p>\n<p><b>Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i> The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an&#8217;t so easy for &#8217;em to see out of a needle&#8217;s eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i> Martin Chuzzlewit<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Look at that sea, girls&#8211;all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn&#8217;t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>Anne of Green Gables<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Remuneration! O, that&#8217;s the Latin word for three farthings.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>Love&#8217;s Labour&#8217;s Lost<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son&#8217;s education, than leave it him in your will.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>The Mill on the Floss<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Eliot<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Money pads the edges of things.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i> Howards End<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0E. M. Forster<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They&#8217;re the only things we can pay.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i>Lady Windermere&#8217;s Fan<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"Money Quotes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Money\">See the entire LitQuotes collection of money quotes from literature<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are ten quotes from literature about money.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[418,825,348,395,491,531,432,471,311,438,419,303,529,351,172,534,533,516,532,228,142],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-anne-of-green-gables","tag-charles-dickens","tag-e-m-forster","tag-george-eliot","tag-howards-end","tag-jonathan-swift","tag-lady-windermeres-fan","tag-little-men","tag-louisa-may-alcott","tag-loves-labours-lost","tag-lucy-maud-montgomery","tag-martin-chuzzlewit","tag-money-quotes","tag-oliver-wendell-holmes","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-the-autocrat-of-the-breakfast-table","tag-the-magnificent-ambersons","tag-the-mill-on-the-floss","tag-the-woman-in-white","tag-wilkie-collins","tag-william-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}