Peter Ustinov

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

A man must cut down his outgoings and save his incomings if he wants to clear himself; you can’t spend your penny and pay debts with it too. Stint the kitchen if the purse is bare. Don’t believe in any way of wiping out debts except by paying hard cash. Promises make debts, and debts make promises, but promises never pay debts…

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.

He who promises runs in debt.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

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