Money Quotes

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment. ~ The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt." ~ A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen "I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence." ~ Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens "Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds." ~ Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery My pride fell with my fortunes; ~ As You Like It by William Shakespeare "It was as true . . . as turnips is. It was as true . . . as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them." ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. ~ David Copperfield by Charles Dickens "I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income." ~ No Name by Wilkie Collins "To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it." ~ The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton "Remuneration! O, that's the Latin word for three farthings." ~ Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare