Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Man
  • Rich

• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Why

• We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - and there are kids in there crying.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Good
  • Money
  • Kids

• Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Money
  • Red
  • Blue

• Bob Hope: finding some coins tied with string in Jack's trousers When you ask this kid for a loan, and he says his money is tied up, he isn't kidding. This is an obstacle course for pickpockets.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Up
  • Money
  • Hope

• The 9/11 attack itself played out around the world, with planning meetings in Malaysia, operatives taking flight lessons in the United States, coordination by plot leaders based in Hamburg, and money transfers from Dubai - activities overseen by al-Qaeda's senior command from secure bases in Afghanistan.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • World
  • Money
  • Planning

• I like doing the editorial stuff because it's nice to do something that's more me. But modeling for brands and the things to make money... I guess I don't really like being the mannequin. It's a very strange concept.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Money
  • Nice

• My family has always supported me a thousand percent. My sister once sold her jewelry so I could pay for gas money to get up to New York for a show. And that's amazing. But you get too much of that, you start depending on it.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

  

  Jerry Kramer
  • Money

• After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis
  • Time
  • Live
  • Money

• My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've represented books that have been sold for very little money and gone on to great glory, and I've seen books sold for an enormous amount of money published to very little response.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Life
  • Great
  • Money

• I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.

  

  Jim Leyland
  • Money
  • Career
  • House

• I think the wall is stupid; it's a waste of the taxpayer's money. We need the money for job growth, infrastructure, 100 other things... it sends a bad message.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Money
  • Job
  • Bad

• A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Different
  • Money
  • Pretty

• Money is money.

  

  David Brock
  • Money

• I have a nice house, nice cars, nice watches, nice things. I've got money in the bank. I'm not in need of a few quid - as it stands. It's all irrelevant to me.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • Money
  • House
  • Nice

• I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

  

  Nicola Formichetti
  • Money
  • Stop
  • Creative

• I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Ideas
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• I love acting. It's a lot of fun work, interesting work, and you get to work with some very interesting people. But I seemed to be OK walking away from it for a little while and then coming back to it.

  

  David Alpay
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

  

  Len Wein
  • Side
  • Sitting
  • Desk

• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Money
  • Secrets
  • Virtues