wealth Quotes

Very few people can afford to be poor.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Property is organized robbery.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.