Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

He who promises runs in debt.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That’s the way you motivate them.