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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IXIn context
- Virtue
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
Wealth — Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
- Comedy
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
Alan Mooreborn 1953About the film adaptation of V for Vendetta, in an MTV interview “Alan Moore: The Last Angry Man”
As long as there is any property, and while money is the standard of all other things, I cannot think that a nation can be governed either justly or happily
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Government
I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book II (4 of 4)In context
- Government
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon1769–1821
- Anti-Religion
Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), First Part, XIIn context
- Freedom
A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn’t spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis1929–1994The New York Times (15 September 1960)
- Comedy
I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Agrarian Justice (1797)
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ‘check enclosed.’
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Dorothy Parker1893–1967
It takes a lot of money to look this cheap.
Dolly Parton1946–2026Interview with Vanity Fair magazine (November 2012)
- Comedy
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic