William Blake

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

English Poet

George Santayana

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Spanish Philosopher

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Italian Poet

Robertson Davies

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Canadian Novelist

Tom Wolfe

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

American Journalist

Karl Marx

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

German Philosopher

Chunky Pandey

I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!

Indian Actor

Publilius Syrus

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Roman Writer

Gertrude Stein

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

American Author

George Herbert

British Poet

The term 'miser' implies disapproval and portrays the person negatively.

Negative Connotation

'Miser' is often used metaphorically to describe excessive frugality.

Metaphorical Use

Being a miser is not only about money, but also about a reluctance to share and enjoy life.

Human Attribute

'Miser' indicates an obsessive need to acquire and keep money, not just being careful with expenses.

Obsessive Behavior

A miser's wealth may not be evident; they often live below their means to save money.

Not Always Visible

Being a miser is commonly associated with lacking generosity and being antisocial.

Antisocial Implication

 her teats of the suckle marks so that's the youngest female that generally follows amber eyes so as soon as an buys Mews but she looks like she's stalking something look at her posture a misers gone into a store posture look at her the way that she's walking she's head down look lowering that head looking forward I wonder if she spotted something

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 The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past.

Miser

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Metaphorical Use

Human Attribute

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