And the Sabalos family was rich - so rich, in fact, that it could afford the simple life. (DSS)
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... people never see anyone who wants them to give them money. (TOT)
'Money doesn't need to talk, it merely has to listen.' (FE)
'... if you go around telling people they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden...' (Do)
Like most people with no grasp whatsoever of real economics, Mustrum Ridcully equated 'proper financial control' with the counting of paperclips. (H)
... where Nobby went wrong was thinking small. He sidled into places and pinched things that weren't worth much. If only he'd sidled into continents and stolen entire cities, slaughtering many of the inhabitants in the process, he'd have been a pillar of the community. (FC)
'Money don't buy happiness, Gytha.'
'I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks.' (Ma) Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories. (Ma)
There is no such thing as a whisper in Ankh-Morpork when the sum involved had the word 'thousand' in it somewhere; people could hear you think kind of money in Ankh Morpork. (SM)
... Dwarfs have thousands of words for 'gold' but will use any of them in an emergency, such as when they see some gold that doesn't belong to them. (SM)
'In my experience,' said Glod, 'what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.' (SM)
... for a dwarf the whole point of having a pile of gold was, well, to have a pile of gold. (SM)
... money in the possession of other people had always seemed to Throat to be against the proper natural order of things. (MA)
He’d faced trolls and dwarf and dragons, but now he was having to meet an entirely new species. The rich. (MA)
Windsor Castle seemed to Luis from without an intimidating pile, an excrescence of centuries of wealth heaped upon a core of medieval brutality. (LU)
Fortune, he thought, follows the already fortunate. (LU)
People in Scoone Avenue had old money, which was supposed to be much better than new money, although Captain Vimes had never had enough of either to spot the difference. People in Scoone Avevue had their own personal bodyguards. People in Scoone Avenue were said to be so aloof they wouldn't even talk to the gods. This was a slight slander. They would talk to gods, if they were well-bred gods of decent family. (GG)
Om was handily silent, thereby enabling his priests to interpret his wishes how they chose. Amazingly, Om’s wishes rarely translated into instructions like “Feed the poor” or “Help the elderly” but more along the lines of “You need a splendid residence” to “Why not have seven courses for dinner?” (SC)
… where there is panic, profit isn’t far behind. (LE)
… money doesn’t do much when it’s standing still. It’s when it’s moving around that it really works. (Do)
‘Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse.’ (Do)
'… dwarfs, while the salt of the earth, don't have much of a grasp of small numbers …' (UA)
A dwarf on the up and up was really on his uppers, and upper-class dwarfs were lower class. A dwarf who was rich, healthy and had respect and his own rat farm justifiably felt at rock bottom and was held in low esteem. When you talked to dwarfs, you turned your mind upside down. (UA)
He was a sergeant, he told himself, which meant that he was paid more than a corporal, which meant that he thought more expensive thoughts. (AM)
Some kinds of simplicity cost more than others. (DSS)
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