Covet Quotes

#1. The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet.

Dean Koontz

#2. To covet beatitude is also avarice.

Osho

#3. The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet.

Charles Spurgeon

#4. I was in shock. Funny how the world works. You don't get the something you really covet, but then the universe provides unexpected compensation. Here I thought you had to make a wish for it to come true.

Sarah Dessen

#5. The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Lao-Tzu

#6. I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

Jesse Spencer

#7. Fondnesse it were for any being free,
To covet fetters, though they golden bee.

Edmund Spenser

#8. Your online life is a variety show, so if anything, the fact that you didn't put me in your stand-up act means you covet me. Maybe even more than I realize, since right now your hand is heading to your cunt yet again.

Caroline Kepnes

#9. Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Horace

#10. 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 for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

Daniel Defoe

#11. Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.

Tertullian

#12. The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.

F. Sionil Jose

#13. So it's tempting to read other people's lives as cautionary fables or repudiations of our own, to covet or denigrate them instead of seeing them for what they are: other people's lives, island universes, unknowable. Not

Tim Kreider

#14. 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 LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)

Marian Keyes

#15. Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.

Honore De Balzac

#16. A woman that you find different or strange, or whom you may envy or covet is deemed by you all to be a witch! Anything that you do not understand, you deem witchcraft!

Andrea Zuvich

#17. I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

Gary Oldman

#18. We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

Ovid

#19. He did his best to reassure her. He shook his head. "I know. I'm pleased very very much. I'm going to enjoy watching you tonight. I'm going to enjoy watching others covet you." He pulled her close and kissed her slowly.

Arden Aoide

#20. It is the villains who covet treasure, not the heroes. Unless the treasure in question is a really snazzy belt buckle, in which case, who can resist? - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO

Christopher Healy

#21. If it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

Ken Follett

#22. 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 your body

Henry David Thoreau

#23. It's not new, our valuation of young female people for how they can serve, satisfy, and satiate. Our girls are both the platter and the meal, and we eat them up--we eat their meat, we lap up their sweetness, we covet and control and consume.

Elana K. Arnold

#24. Never covet what a fool has;
a fool is only allowed to keep his madness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#25. She regarded the things that were important to me as her enemy, not realizing that they were, in fact, the "me" she seemed so jealously to covet.

David Foster Wallace

#26. It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

Saint Augustine

#27. Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

Michael J. Saylor

#28. The more of Heaven we cherish, the less of Earth we covet.

David Berg

#29. The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it.

Marshall A. Cohen

#30. Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#31. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mark Twain

#32. Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Epictetus

#33. 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 wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

William Shakespeare

#34. What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?

Frederick Douglass

#35. When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.

William P. Smith

#36. Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them.

Charlie Hunnam

#38. "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's." Your neighbor is clearly a male, and the woman, the ox and the ass are property of the male. That's not morality I will salute today.

John Shelby Spong

#39. 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 we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Thomas Harris

#40. Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.

Phyllis McGinley

#41. 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, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked ...

William Shakespeare

#42. In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.

Daniel Defoe

#43. The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.

Shane Claiborne

#44. 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 covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Horatio Nelson

#45. If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.

Donna Lynn Hope

#46. If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

John Adams

#47. It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a man exempt from fears and desires should take the trouble to reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#48. Greed for enlightenment and immortality is no different than greed for material wealth. It is self-centered and dualistic, and thus an obstacle to true attainment. Therefore these states are never achieved by those who covet them; rather, they are the reward of the virtuous.

Laozi

#49. All men beneath your position covet your station,

Frank Herbert

#50. It isn't sex by itself that makes abortion. It is sex plus covetousness: desiring things that God does not will for us to have because we are not willing to find our satisfaction in him. Illicit sex and unencumbered freedom without children: for these we covet, and abortion is the result.

John Piper

#51. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.

W.C. Fields

#52. You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war (James 4:1, 2).

Richard J. Foster

#53. The rich covet the new iPod not for the sounds it can make in their heads, but for the impressions it can make in the heads of others.

Geoffrey Miller

#54. You can tell the truly wealthy from their confidence, their grace. People here don't show their wealth, they hide it. They covet it.

Alessandra Torre

#55. Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women

Kang Min-hyuk

#56. Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.

Lionel Shriver

#57. Women, in my experience, if they once reach the determination to commit suicide, usually wish to reveal the state of mind that led to the fatal action. They covet the limelight.

Agatha Christie

#58. Because this story is the road to the Pulitzer, something you covet very badly. I'm willing to bet that just the idea of this story is making you harder than the blonde at the bar.

M.K. Schiller

#59. It is vanity, too, to covet honours, and to lift up ourselves on high ... It is vanity, to love that which quickly passeth away and not to hasten where eternal joy abideth

Thomas A Kempis

#60. We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura.

Menachem Begin

#61. Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

Jules Verne

#62. One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#63. The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

Judith Martin

#64. We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men ... the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are not of the world.

Billy Graham

#65. Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.

Philip Massinger

#66. Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#67. If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

Ethan Hawke

#68. ...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

Karen Baker-Fletcher

#69. To love your brother is to covet not what is his own

Sunday Adelaja

#70. Sir, you have now given me my 'cadeau;' I am obliged to you: it is the meed teachers most covet-praise of their pupils' progress.

Charlotte Bronte

#71. Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you
covet.

Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

#72. I envy because of the heart I glutton because of the heart I covet because of the heart I am prideful because of the heart I sloth because of the heart I rage because of the heart Because of the heart, I lust for everything about you. - Ulquiorra (resurrection)

Tite Kubo

#73. People always covet what they themselves do not possess.

Walter Moers

#74. It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.

Max Beerbohm

#75. Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Thomas A Kempis

#76. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

Otto Rank

#77. How could you possibly want to compete about who suffered most?' Beatriss said sadly. 'For if you want to covet that prize, take it! Take it, but don't bring my child into your bitterness.

Melina Marchetta

#78. Most girls covet dresses."
"I am not most girls.

V.E Schwab

#79. We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

Jean De La Bruyere

#80. I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.

Hans Christian Andersen

#81. I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.

Chris Killip

#82. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#83. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

William Shakespeare

#84. Don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

John Geddes

#85. Change, change,
we all covet change.

Nicolas Chamfort

#86. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ice cream.

Kelly Easton

#87. All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Jesus Christ

#88. Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it - And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.

Laurence Sterne

#89. Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.

John Chamberlain

#90. It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Seneca The Younger

#91. In fact, there was a sort of satisfaction and pride in knowing that Kiki was his. Other men could look, they could envy, they could even covet, but she was going home with him. Every. Time.

Genevieve Dewey

#92. I covet you like any good demon would." His other hand tightened at the back of my neck. "And my desire for you increases every waking second in a way that should frighten me, but really just excites me. But most of all, I love you,

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#93. The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

A. J. Jacobs

#94. Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much.

Horace

#95. There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them.

Evangeline Lilly

#96. Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

John H. Vandenberg

#97. Compliment but do not covet.

Christopher Moore

#98. The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.

Hubert Burda

#99. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand

#100. If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.

Jane Austen