Quotes about Wealth

Rich people, for example, are often angry because they suspect that the poor want to seize their wealth.

She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich, with a smattering of culture.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

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

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.

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.

The happiness he gives is quite as great, as if it cost a fortune.

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

At length it became high time to remember the first clause of that great discovery made by the ancient philosopher, for securing health, riches, and wisdom; the infallibility of which has been for generations verified by the enormous fortunes constantly amassed by chimney-sweepers and other persons who get up early and go to bed betimes.