Money Quotes

"Americans are so charming, that we really must not mind their money." ~ The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse. ~ The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins "I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination." ~ The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is, I believe, the worst of all snares. ~ Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe "I doubt there is any true courage," said he, "in squabbling for money." ~ Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope When Wealth walks in the door, the Press Agent comes in through the window. ~ Knocking the Neighbors by George Ade "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." ~ The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton "Life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a nest of cracks. And when they're gone we can't tell where--or what the devil we did with 'em!" ~ The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington The father of this pleasant grandfather, of the neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant, was a horny-skinned, two-legged, money-getting species of spider who spun webs to catch unwary flies and retired into holes until they were entrapped. The name of this old pagan's god was Compound Interest. ~ Bleak House by Charles Dickens