Confined Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Covetousness teaches people to be cruel and crafty, industrious and evil, full of care and malice; and after all this, it is for no…

— Jeremy Taylor

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Coveting is about craving something to the point of distraction and dysfunction. People think coveting is about craving the things you don’t have. But…

— Unka Glen

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most…

— John Tillotson

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.

— Christopher Marlowe

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

— John Milton

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

— Lucy Larcom

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third…

— Friedrich Engels

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

— William Shakespeare

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from…

— William Shakespeare

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that…

— Francis Bacon

Weakness for wealth and for collecting and owning things of different kinds; the urge for physical (sensuous) enjoyment; the longing for honour, which is…

— Tito Colliander