The Rocking-Horse Winner Wealth Quotes

"If you're rich, you may lose your money. But if you're lucky, you will always get more money." (18)

The whole story tests this notion of this sentiment; is Paul really lucky when he dies in the end?

"Bassett is lucky, and you must be lucky, because it was your ten shillings I started winning with…" (113)

Paul takes his mother's words on luck quite literally, and Uncle Oscar is onto his scheme.

"And then the house whispers like people laughing at you behind your back. It's awful, that is! I thought if I was lucky –" (157)

It's almost as if his parents' anxieties about money become intensified into full-blown obsessions when transferred to their son.