Money, again, has often bee... by Charles Mackay, a British Poet

Charles Mackay Quotes

“Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.”

53% of people like this quote

Charles Mackay

Author details

Name: Charles Mackay

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: 1814

Date of Death: 1889

Profession: Poet

Other Charles Mackay Quotes

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

Charles Mackay

60% of people like this quote

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

Charles Mackay

59% of people like this quote

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

Charles Mackay

58% of people like this quote

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Charles Mackay

53% of people like this quote

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Charles Mackay

49% of people like this quote

View all Charles Mackay quotes