Avarice: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 216.
Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries. If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury.— CICERO — De Oratore. II. 40.