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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
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
— Arthur Hugh Clough
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
— Winston Churchill
I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.
— Chris Killip
Amoebas cannot sin because they reproduce by fission. They do not covet wives or murder each other.
— Ray Bradbury
I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.
— Jesse Spencer
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ice cream.
— Kelly Easton
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most.
— Philip Massinger
People always covet what they themselves do not possess.
— Walter Moers
Do not covet your ideas.
— Paul Arden
Most girls covet dresses." "I am not most girls. — V.E Schwab
in order to make a man covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain." H
— Dan Ariely
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
Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.
— Anthony Liccione
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
— Thomas A Kempis
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
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.
— Gary Shteyngart
That which is large enough for the rich to covet," said Wayne, drawing up his head, "is large enough for the poor to defend.
— G.K. Chesterton
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
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
No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever out of reach.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
This is the downside of being complete. Others want what you have. They covet your doneness.
— Amy Reed
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what youcovet. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib
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
If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.
— Donna Lynn Hope
We all covet wealth, but not its perils.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Jack may've been deceitful by blood and a liar by nature, but hot damn holy honeysuckle, he knew how to kiss.
— Kristin Miller
They covet a vision of themselves as witnesses.
— David Foster Wallace
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
The one good thing about the Angels was they always colored within the lines. They had to.
Suckers. — J.R. Ward
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods.
— Saint Patrick
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
— William Shakespeare
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
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet.
— Honore De Balzac
I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.
— Lena Dunham
Never covet what a fool has;a fool is only allowed to keep his madness. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.
— Michael J. Saylor
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
The person who has the throne will not covet a position of civil or police authority.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
Compliment but do not covet.
— Christopher Moore
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
How could two people seem so perfect together, be so happy together, an yet be so wrong in so many others' eyes?
— Melissa Darnell
To love your brother is to covet not what is his own
— Sunday Adelaja
The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet.
— Charles Spurgeon
I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
— Hans Christian Andersen
All men beneath your position covet your station,
— Frank Herbert
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
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
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
Change, change,we all covet change. — Nicolas Chamfort
Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.
— John H. Vandenberg
