Words matter. These are the best Miser Quotes from famous people such as James Payn, Thomas Fuller, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kharaj Mukherjee, Paul Dini, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
The devil lies brooding in the miser’s chest.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
In Raja Chanda’s ‘Ley Halua Ley,’ I essay Locket’s miser husband, who is suspicious of his beautiful wife. He is ready to go to any extent to protect his wife. The script of this film is hilarious.
The old Rankin-Bass animated specials seemed to exist in a loosely shared reality, which is what attracted me to them. Santa, Snow Miser, Rudolph, Frosty, even the Easter Bunny seemed to be on nodding acquaintance with each other, even if only in cameo appearances in each other’s cartoons.
Genuinely my big thing and the reason I’m in ‘The Miser’ is because I always ask myself one simple question when I’m offered anything: Will it get me nearer to being ‘Doctor Who’ or further away?
We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator… Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or ‘stage’ Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke.
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.
This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.
The miser, starving his brother’s body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
