Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- Dante Alighieri

Avarice, the spur of industry.

- David Hume

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

- Edward Moore

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

- George Bancroft

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

- Matthew Green

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

- Stendhal

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

- Thomas Clarkson

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

- Walter Savage Landor