(134 quotes found)
“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions that a vine filled with grapes”
William Blake
“The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty”
Publilius Syrus
“I don't think anyone can ever be fully happy. If you're fully happy then you're a miserable person because the grass is always greener on the other side-it has to be. I'm not saying I'm miserable-in fact I'm the happiest I've been for a long time, but I'm no happier than I was when I was at school. Then again, I'm more miserable than when I was at school.”
Robbie Williams
“I was elated by my success in my work, but shattered over my mother's death, and miserable about the way my marriage seemed to be foundering. And one day when my wife was away, I walked out of the house, and out of her life, trying to escape from something I could put no name to.”
Conrad Veidt
“I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.”
“He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.”
Proverb
“Nothing. I was miserable. I didn't wear this shirt, ... I refused to wear it.”
John Madden
“The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.”
Bette Davis
