“But Mr. Boffin is being spoilt by prosperity, and is changing every day.” “My dear Bella, I hope and trust not.” “I have hoped and trusted not too, Pa; but every day he changes for the worse, and for the worse. Not to me – he is always much the same to me – but to others about him. Before my eyes he grows suspicious, capricious, hard, tyrannical, unjust. If ever a good man were ruined by good fortune, it is my benefactor. And yet, Pa, think how terrible the fascination of money is! I see this, and hate this, and dread this, and don’t know but that money might make a much worse change in me. And yet I have money always in my thoughts and my desires; and the whole life I place before myself is money, money, money, and what money can make of life!”
Source: Our Mutual Friend
“Oh I know darling, it's nothing but money in New York.”
Source: Manhattan Transfer
“Whenever Solomon played cards, he felt strong and smooth, like he couldn't lose; he wondered if he felt this way because he didn't care about the money.”
Source: Pachinko
“Yes, it can be quite agonizing to walk away from what looks like a great offer. But what you must grasp is that if you proceed you could end up working in a culture that is totally out of whack with your values and that can wreck you mentally and physically. No offer is worth that price.”
Source: Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager
“She was rich; she had the luxury of having faith. But then, Faten thought, Noura also had the luxury of having no faith; she'd probably found the hijab too constraining and ended up taking it off to show off her designer clothes. That was the thing with money. It gave you choices.”
Source: Hope And Other Dangerous Pursuits
“The key to attracting more physical abundance, in your reality, is to eradicate the current subconscious projections that you place on money and its identity.”
Source: Esotericism With an Unconventional Soul: Exploring Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, and Mysticism
“I killed everyone in the book. But I was the only one who died in reality.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player
“When a presumptively heterosexual man makes gratuitous transfers of money to a woman who is not his wife or daughter, it raises, fairly or not, questions about the man's motivations.”
Source: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
“If you are low status ten (...) Money will make you liable to the dangerous temptations of drugs and alcohol, which are much more rewarding if you have been deprived of pleasure for a long period.”
Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“...honesty required one to remind oneself that when there were bills to be paid, an offer of money was harder to reject than when there were no such bills. Other people's money, we tell ourselves, is always less deserved than our own.”
Source: The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds