Rich quotes
Ahmanson Howard
I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.
Bagehot Walter 1826-1877
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
The Bible
Old Testament: Proverbs ch.28 v.20
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Céline Louis-Ferdinand 1894-1961
If you aren't rich, you should always look useful.
Chesterton G.K. 1874-1936
The Flying Inn
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
Dyer Sir Edward 1545-1607
‘In praise of a contented mind'
Some have too much, yet still do crave;
I little have, and seek no more.
They are but poor, though much they have,
And I am rich with little store.
They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;
They lack, I leave ; they pine, I live.
Fitzgerald F. Scott 1896-1940
All the Sad Young Men
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
France Anatole 1844-1924
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Frost Robert 1874-1963
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Deserted Village
A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year;
Remote from towns he ran his godly race,
Nor e'er had changed nor wished to change his place.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Traveller
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Kahn Gus and Egan Raymond 1886-1941 and 1890-1952
„Ain't We Got Fun"
There's nothing surer,
The rich get rich and the poor get children.
In the meantime, in between time,
Ain't we got fun.
Kennedy John F. 1917-1963
(Inaugural address)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Langland William c.1330-1400
The Vision of Piers Plowman
A faire feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene
Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,
Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.
Moore Edward 1712-1757
The Foundling
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Moore Thomas 1779-1852
‘Rich and rare were the gems she wore'
Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Pearson Hesketh 1887-1964
The Pilgrim Daughters
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except perhaps that of the titled for riches.
Péguy Charles 1873-1914
Short of genius, a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
Proverbs and Sayings
Jewish
If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
Proverbs and Sayings
Russian
The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.
Ruskin John 1819-1900
Sesame and Lilies
We call ourselves a rich nation, and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries!
Sartre Jean-Paul 1905-1980
Lucifer and the Lord
When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
King John
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail,
And say there is no sin, but to be rich;
And, being rich, my virtue then shall be,
To say there is no vice, but beggary.
Smith Logan Pearsall 1865-1946
Afterthoughts ‘In the World'
To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
Sondheim Stephen
A Little Night Music ‘Send in the Clowns'
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground, you mid-air ...
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around, one who can't move ...
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.
Thackeray William Makepeace 1811-1863
Pendennis
Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
Thoreau Marshall
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
Twain Mark 1835-1910
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.
Willkie Wendell 1892-1944
One World
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or colour of their skin.
