Money Quotes

We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot "A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit." ~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens "It matters little," she said, softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve." ~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens "Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "Neither a borrower nor a lender be: for loan oft loses both itself and friend; and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare "Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables." ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare