Money Quotes

“Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.”

“Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings”

“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?”

“Gold--what can it not do, and undo?”

“The instances that second marriage moveAre base respects of thrift, but none of love.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.”

“Put money in thy purse.”

“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.”

“ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.”

“It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.”

“Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.”

“To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.”

“The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.”

“Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.”

“Money often costs too much.”

“If money go before, all ways do lie open.”

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”

“If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”

“O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!”

“Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”

“How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.”

“Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.”

“Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.”

“The world is his who has money to go over it.”

“I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.”