She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic…

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

— Michael Glawogger

“Because everyone wanted something, and when someone coveted a thing enough, rarely did they question the price.”

— Joelle Charbonneau

“Nothing is quite so attractive in our possession as it was when coveted”

— Pliny the Younger

“A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman”

— Uneñ Ameji

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

— Guy de Maupassant

“where your father was from. America wasn’t like that. You became what you coveted.”

— Hala Alyan

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

— Proverb

“Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would.”

— Roshani Chokshi

“Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental…

— erwin panofsky

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man…

— Alfred L. Kroeber

Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived…

— John Walford

One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House…

— Kenny Smith

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.—or America.

— Isabel Lucas

I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether,…

— Sheila Heti

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

— Gilbert Gottfried