She smiled. Everyone is greedy, she said. Even people who have all the money and power in the universe want more to protect what they already have.

he who is greedy is always in want

From the least to the greatest right up to the King himself everyone is infected with insatiable greed.

The need for instant gratification is a component of greed.

We're all greedy, but children make it easier to be. We feel it's only right to give them everything we can grab, even when you know that anything you feed your own child still comes out of someone else's mouth.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

We are all born brave, trusting, and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow.

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Greed. What's more greedy than wanting to take something from someone else that you haven't earned.

Who are the greedy? Those who are not satisfied with what suffices for their own needs. Who are the robbers? Those who take for themselves what rightfully belongs to everyone. And you, are you not greedy? Are you not a robber? The things you received in trust as a stewardship, have you not appropriated them for yourself? Is not the person who strips another of clothing called a thief? And those who do not clothe the naked when they have the power to do so, should they not be called the same? The bread you are holding back is for the hungry, the clothes you keep put away are for the naked, the shoes that are rotting away with disuse are for those who have none, the silver you keep buried in the earth is for the needy. You are thus guilty of injustice toward as many as you might have aided, and did not.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

A greedy man is an unlucky man.