Money and Wealth

The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention

Mammon led them on,

Let none admire

Money couldn’t buy friends but you got a better class of enemy.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

So I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.

He’s an absent-minded beggar and his weaknesses are great.

Lenin was right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice.

Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Money … is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Si possis recte, si non, quocumque modo rem.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want.

If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.