Wealth quotes

“When gentlemen start talking about principles, we poor people lose what we don't even have!”
Jenny Gago - La Garduna

“- Man in Black: I can help you. Give me the box.
- Patrick Harper: And if I do?
- Man in Black: You will be rich.
- Patrick Harper: And if I don't?
- Man in Black: You will be dead.
- Patrick Harper: Hmm... well, you're having the best of the argument so far.”
Anthony Hyde - Man in Black
Daragh O'Malley - Harper

“Our hero, Sherman McCoy, was about to make a simple phone call. But despite the existence of 11 telephones, and 7 different lines, in 14 rooms of his 16-million-plus dollar apartment, this was a phone call he could not make at home.”
Bruce Willis - Peter Fallow

“- Flan Kittredge: Having a rich friend is like drowning and your friend makes lifeboats.
- Ouisa Kittredge: Only your friend gets very touchy if you say one word: lifeboat.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan
Stockard Channing - Ouisa

“- Wanda Gershwitz: You just wanted to get me into bed.
- Archie Leach: I fell in love with you.
- Wanda Gershwitz: How come you dumped me then.
- Archie Leach: I wasn't rich enough, remember.”
Jamie Lee Curtis - Wanda Gershwitz
John Marwood Cleese - Archie Leach

“Yesterday we were an army with no country, tomorrow, we have to decide which country we want to buy!”

Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber

“- Harriet M. Welsch: I hate money.
- Sport: You'd like it a lot more if you didn't have any.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Harriet M. Welsch
Gregory Smith - Sport

“How's about we all go on a stick-up? It's foolproof. If it works, we'll be in great shape. If not, maybe they'll give us three years. Maybe. That would be free room and board, and when we get out, we'd each have 36 social security checks waiting for us. That, by the way, adds up to 8,532 bucks - apiece. Not a bad piece of change.”
George Burns - Joe

“Everything smells delicious when you're rich!”
Richard Libertini - Dijon

“The point is there's a gulf in this country; an ever-widening abyss between the people who have stuff, and the people who don't have shit. It's like this big hole in the ground, as big as the fucking Grand Canyon, and what's come pouring out is an eruption of rage, and the rage creates violence, and the violence is real.”

Steve Martin - Davis

“I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing.”

Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“- John L. Sullivan IV: I thought you were a rich man. Aren't you a multi-millionaire?
- Blaine Bingham: Depends on what you mean by multi.
- John L. Sullivan IV: Multi usually means more than one!”
Burt Reynolds - John L. Sullivan IV
Christopher Reeve - Blaine Bingham

“- Paul Varjak: [reaches into his pocket at the Tiffany's counter] We could have something engraved, couldn't we?
- Tiffany's salesman: Yes, I suppose so, yes indeed... the only problem is you would more or less have to buy something first if only in order to have some object upon which to place the engraving... You see the difficulty...
- Paul...” (continue)(continue reading)
George Peppard - Paul Varjak
John McGiver - Tiffany's Salesman

“You've pulled over the wrong black man, Officer Steckler! I'm the 800 pound gorilla in your mist, fucker! I make more money in a day than you make in a whole year! And my lawyer loves sending sorryass Aryan RoboCop fuckers like you to jail!”
Glenn Plummer - Jeriko One

“- Gilbert: Where did you hide the treasure, exactly?
- Yellowbeard: You won't catch me with those trick questions.”
Marty Feldman - Gilbert
Graham Arthur Chapman - Yellowbeard

“Be it ever so humble, there's no place like a three-and-a-half million dollar home!”
George Segal - Barry

“You don’t have to be embarrassed by me anymore. I’m rich! Isn’t that what you want? Isn’t it great? Are we happy now?”
Ethan Hawke - Finnegan Bell

“When rich wives get dead I usually go after the husbands.”
Guy Boyd - Det. Jim McLean

“Rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“What the hell's the point of being a decent person when no-one is? Let's be assholes and get rich!”
Judge Reinhold - Ken Kessler

“- Claudia: He barely knows I'm alive, he cut my allowance.
- Jessie Bannister: He cut her allowance, honey!
- Mark Bannister: To what? $9000.00 a month?
- Claudia: He makes me drive his old Jaguar.
- Jessie Bannister: Now Claudia, some people have worse problems.
- Claudia: Like Who?
- Jessie Bannister: Like people who don't have cars.
- Claudia...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alison La Placa - Claudia
Kirstie Alley - Jessie Bannister
John Larroquette - Mark Bannister

“I'm not rich, my father is. And I didn't pick my father. And if I had a choice between having tons of money or having another father, I'd be absolutely delighted to be poor.”

Liv Tyler - Pamela Abbott

“I'm sorry. We don't all have rich mommies and daddies we can live off of or open restaurants when we get bored playing tennis.”

Denis Colin Leary - Gus

“I'm a man of wealth and taste. I can offer you wealth and... your taste can be worked on.”
Rick Collins - Inc. Chairman

- Herb Sullivan: No broad!
- Charlie Gordon: Well, that's too bad, 'cause I got one lined up: rich... "Texas rich". With an ass so beautiful, it's a shame she has to sit down on it.
Jack Lemmon - Herb Sullivan
Walter Matthau - Charlie Gordon