Best Covetousness Sayings

69 Covetousness quotes by 59 unique authors

The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and… — John Chancellor
Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to… — Zoroaster
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty. — Thomas Adams
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For… — Chanakya
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking,… — Paul the Apostle
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which… — Michel de Montaigne
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. — William Shakespeare
There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want… — Mark Twain
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual… — Joseph Conrad
Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and… — John Steinbeck
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you. — Friedrich Schiller
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and… — Leonardo da Vinci
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things… — Bible
Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday was a happy… — Kahlil Gibran
Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor — German Proverb
The antidote for covetousness is contentment. The two are in opposition. Whereas the covetous, greedy person worships himself, the contented person worships God. Contentment comes… — John Macarthur
The covetousness makes human devilish and sacrifice makes Deity. — Mak_786
Only take from mother nature what you really need. Covetousness will not be tolerated by mother nature... By Chevy. — Bryan N De Bruin

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