We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for… — Derek A. Cuthbert Copy Share Image
Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people, as Isaiah… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
“Nothing is quite so attractive in our possession as it was when coveted” — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When the Forbidden Fruit was handed to Adam and Eve, they were allowed the moral choice to accept or decline. I know… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over… — John Chancellor Copy Share Image
A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to… — Richard of Chichester Copy Share Image
