wealth Quotes

“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:women wealth

“Prosperity's the very bond of love, whose fresh complexion and whose heart together affliction alters.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

topic:love wealth

“Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving our world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the areas in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to...”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

topic:wealth business

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it ’cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he’s poor in hisself, there ain’t no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an’ maybe he’s disappointed that...”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:poverty wealth

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

topic:marriage wealth

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

topic:wealth

“The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:government wealth

“no man grows rich by kindness.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

topic:wealth kindness

“Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:wealth

“In every ordered State, wealth is a sacred thing: in democracies it is the only sacred thing.”

― Anatole France, Penguin Island

topic:wealth democracy

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