Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
Walter Savage Landor

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice is the vice of declining years.
George Bancroft

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.
Matthew Green

Avarice, the spur of industry.
David Hume

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Buddha

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Andreas Capellanus

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Petrarch

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Edward Moore

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
John A. Logan

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Andreas Capellanus

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
Stendhal

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Cyril Connolly