Best Covet Quotes
70 Covet quotes by 59 unique authors
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GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness,…
— William Shakespeare
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I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every…
— Jane Austen
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My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to…
— Horatio Nelson
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed…
— Brent L. Top
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
— Kat Dennings
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I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I…
— Marian Keyes
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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The more of Heaven we cherish, the less of Earth we covet.
— David Berg
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By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments…
— William Shakespeare
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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
— Ovid
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I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for…
— Ayn Rand
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All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the…
— Freida Pinto
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
— William Shakespeare
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You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Compliment but do not covet.
— Christopher Moore
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Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents…
— Daniel Defoe
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in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
— Mark Twain
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I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather…
— Daniel Defoe
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That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
— Gary Shteyngart
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Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you…
— Marilynne Robinson
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be glαd of life, becαuse it gives you the chαnce to love αnd to work αnd to plαy αnd to look up αt the stαrs;…
— Henry Van Dyke
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What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do…
— Thomas Harris
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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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