Quotes about money
243 quotes from 153 people
John Updike1932–2009Couples (1968), Ch. 5
Gore Vidal1925–2012Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 24
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Mme. d’Épinal, Ferney (26 December 1760) from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance (Garnier frères, Paris, 1881), vol. IX, letter # 4390 (p. 124)- Voltaire1694–1778“Charity” (1770)
George Washington1732–1799Letter to Major-General Robert Howe (17 August 1779), published in “The Writings of George Washington”: 1778-1779, edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford (1890)
H. G. Wells1866–1946Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (1901), The Faith, Morals, and Public Policy of The New Republic, pp. 340–343Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
John Wesley1703–1791Sermon 50 “The Use of Money” in The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. (1840) edited by John Emory, Vol. I, p. 446A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Model Millionaire (1912)Cocaine is God’s way of telling someone that they’re too rich.
Woodrow Wilson1856–1924The New Freedom (1913), Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 185A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941A Room of One’s Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4
