Famous quotes containing the word greedy:
“Dont make your enemies happy.
Make up with your lover,
whos greedy to be back
in your good graces.
Daughter,
because youve taken anger to extremes,
you wont amount
to a hill of beans.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.”
—Charles Baudelaire (18211867)
“The modern picture of The Artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldnt see, to be high, live low, stay young foreverin short, to be the bohemian.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)