Top 64 Covetous Quotes

#1. I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

Amanda Marshall

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#2. Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.

Robert Mugabe

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#3. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.

Sun Tzu

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#4. 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 it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Marilynne Robinson

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#5. When Otero departs, there will go with her the last symbol of the epoch, superficial, light and at the same time virtuous and cynical, covetous towards others, yet madly extravagant in its pleasures, full of faults but not without its splendour.

Anne Manson

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#6. Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.'

'The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse.

Alexandre Dumas

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

Francis Bacon

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#8. An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Ezra Taft Benson

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#9. The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Orison Swett Marden

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#10. A covetous man's penny is a stone.

Bill Vaughan

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#11. The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Ben Jonson

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#12. 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

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#13. If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Frances Wright

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#14. You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

Thomas Watson

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#15. The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He was called Lucifer, son of the morning. Haughty, ambitious, and covetous of power and glory, this spirit-brother of Jesus desperately tried to become the Savior of mankind

Milton R. Hunter

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#16. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

Charles Dickens

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#17. When you go watch "The Lord Of The Rings," you don't just buy a bag of popcorn, and go sit in the movie theater to watch where covetous people in our hearts deceive us, and then walk out the theater. That's the message that may be in that movie.

LeCrae

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#18. The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

Henry Fielding

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#19. The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

Saadi

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#20. The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

Robert South

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#21. As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

Seneca The Younger

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#22. Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#23. All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

Henry Rollins

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#24. If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

Idries Shah

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#25. Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

Walter Raleigh

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#26. Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

Billy Graham

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#27. Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

Alexander Wilson

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#28. This is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#29. She was proud one moment, covetous the next, and then fearful the moment after that. It would always be like this, wouldn't it, being the wife of a man she loved but couldn't trust, whose true motives were as murky as the bottom of the sea?

Sherry Thomas

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#30. The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Horace

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#31. The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

Thomas Adams

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#32. Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Matthew Henry

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#33. The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.

John Tillotson

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#34. He is the least in want who is the least covetous.

Publilius Syrus

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#35. World creation should be an effort of great and covetous love.

Micah R. Sisk

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#36. Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

John Milton

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#37. Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

Samuel Johnson

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#38. Sometimes she worried that her love for Edgar was too strong, a covetous earthly love, a love against God, a love to reclaim lost things. But what love wasn't that? What love wasn't a reward to counter an old wrong? Anyway, it wasn't something she could control. How

Victor Lodato

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#39. Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Thomas Browne

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#40. The truly covetous have never enough!

Delarivier Manley

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#41. I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

John Gay

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#42. The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

Herman Melville

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#43. One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

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#44. To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Henry Ward Beecher

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#45. Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

Saint Basil

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#46. The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Du Mu

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#47. City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

Mary Augusta Ward

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#48. 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 thee.

Zoroaster

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#49. The covetous man is always poor.

Claudius Claudianus

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#50. That the covetous wants that which he has, as well as that which he has not; because he is master of nothing, and is the slave of his own wealth.

John Calvin

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#51. More than that, though, it gained a definite spiritual chill. Malevolent energy hovered around us, slow and thick like half-frozen honey. There was a gloating, miserly quality to it, bringing to my mind images of old Smaug lying in covetous slumber upon his bed of treasure.

Jim Butcher

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#52. The covetous are always in want.

Horace

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#53. The world itself is too small for the covetous.

Seneca The Younger

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#54. So inconsiderable a thing is fortune in respect of human nature, and so insufficient to give content to a covetous mind, that an empire of that mighty extent and sway could not satisfy the ambition of two men;

Plutarch

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#55. Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?

Gerrard Winstanley

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#56. A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

Jonathan Edwards

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#57. Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#58. Be thrifty, but not covetous.

George Herbert

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#59. The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

Jonathan Franzen

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#60. Behold how each of your virtues is covetous of the highest place; each wants your whole spirit to be her herald, it wants your whole power, in wrath, hatred, and love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#61. These are society's definitions of poverty and wealth: To be poor is to have less and to be rich is to have more. Under these definitions, we are always poor, always covetous, always dissatisfied, no matter the size of our salary, or how comfortable we are, or if our needs are in fact fulfilled.

Ken Ilgunas

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#62. The covetous man is ever in want.

Horace

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#63. The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.

Thomas Adams

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#64. There is no disaster greater than not being content; There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.

Lao-Tzu

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