Actions Quotes Logo

Rich Quotes

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as mu...

Show More

Death after all is only a matter of a few hours, a few minutes, but a pension is like poverty, it la...

Show More

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It ...

Show More
Picture of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having...

Show More

Mother Atkinson thought that every one should have a trade, or something to make a living out of , f...

Show More

This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty,...

Show More

They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything had...

Show More

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it...

Show More

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant sou...

Show More

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich a...

Show More

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but th...

Show More

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is ...

Show More

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a ...

Show More

Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. ...

Show More

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The government belongs to the poor people of the country. We are custodian of people's hope. For who...

Show More

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be...

Show More

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to...

Show More

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ...

Show More

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population th...

Show More

I tell you, say the rich,the poor are naughtbut dirty windwelling in air-shaftsover the cindersand d...

Show More

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people...

Show More

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, wh...

Show More
Picture of Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeThe Happy Prince and Other Tales

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The ...

Show More

Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swan...

Show More

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...

Show More

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people ...

Show More
Picture of Paul Theroux
Paul TherouxThe Kingdom by the Sea

I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality wo...

Show More
Picture of Peter Weiss
Peter WeissThe Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind...

Show More

We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our ne...

Show More

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone wan...

Show More

When my book 'Rich Dad's Prophecy' was released in 2002, most financial newspapers and magazines tra...

Show More

My rich dad believed we should all learn to take care of ourselves.

Give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same things as rich people.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Picture of Scott Lynch
Scott LynchThe Lies of Locke Lamora

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of soc...

Show More

We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...

Show More
S
Steven HeightonEvery Lost Country

It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that...

Show More

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they w...

Show More

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my fri...

Show More

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money w...

Show More

Or can it be thought that they who heap up an useless mass of wealth, not for any use that it is to ...

Show More

As God loves me, when I consider this, then every modern society seems to me to be nothing but a con...

Show More

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is pa...

Show More

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem...

Show More

The best thing about being rich is the freedom freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It...

Show More

The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses---...

Show More

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billio...

Show More

Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

We need business to understand its social responsibility, that the main task and objective for a bus...

Show More

The law," he continued, "is made by the rich people so that the poor people can't get ahead...

Picture of Walter Mosley
Walter MosleyDevil in a Blue Dress

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend ...

Show More

I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fear...

Show More

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re wi...

Show More

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in ...

Show More

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are direc...

Show More

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poo...

Show More

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile peopl...

Show More

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhan...

Show More
Picture of Adam Smith
Adam SmithThe Wealth of Nations

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath ...

Show More

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a...

Show More

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

Show More

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than m...

Show More

Gatsby's self-willed metamorphosis from farm boy to prince is many ways identical to my father's. Li...

Show More

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as w...

Show More

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to b...

Show More

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher e...

Show More

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own ...

Show More

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on t...

Show More

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

Show More

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but ...

Show More
Picture of Arundhati Roy
Arundhati RoyThe Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn...

Show More

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other'...

Show More

Content makes poor men rich discontent makes rich men poor.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to r...

Show More

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for m...

Show More

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Picture of C. L. R. James
C. L. R. JamesThe Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.

Picture of C. S. Lewis
C. S. LewisEnglish Literature in the Sixteenth Century excluding Drama

It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake.

Picture of C. S. Lewis
C. S. LewisThe Magician's Nephew

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or h...

Show More