Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
Alderic, Knight of the Order of the City and the Assault, hereditary Guardian of the King's Peace of Mind, a man not unremembered among the makers of myth, pondered so long upon the Gibbelins' hoard that by now he deemed it his. Alas that I should sa...
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
Avarice is the vice of declining years.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches.
Of every ten who tread the Middle Way to Knowledge there are nine who turn aside through avarice, though not all avarice is born of belly-hunger or the greed for gold. Some seek preeminence, such eminence as they have won corroded by insane pride. So...
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Avarice is opposed to nobility. It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader.
