Covetousness Quotes
Collection of top 50 famous quotes about Covetousness
Covetousness Quotes & Sayings
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The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
— Lucy Larcom
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
— Christopher Marlowe
Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.
— Charles Emmerson
Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.
— Walter Scott
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Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?
— Jocelyn Gibb
I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
— Garrison Keillor
Do not underestimate what you specific conventional, nor covetousness others. He who envies others does not terra firma organization of intellect.
— Gautama Buddha
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
— Cato The Elder
By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words
— Sunday Adelaja
Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.
— Rick Perlstein
Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.
— Friedrich Schiller
The chief sources of sin are seven: Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, and Sloth; and they are commonly called capital sins.
— Plenary Councils Of Baltimore
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
Few love what they may have.
— Ovid
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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 dies.
— Michel De Montaigne
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.
— Benjamin Franklin
But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.
— Eleanor Catton
Luxury ... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
— Henri Rousseau
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
In youth, he must guard against lust. When he is strong, he must guard against quarrelsomeness. And when he is old, against covetousness.
— Darron Contryman
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
— William Shakespeare
Churches themselves are breeding covetousness.
— Sunday Adelaja
Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions (Luke 12:15).
— Richard J. Foster
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
— Saint John Chrysostom
Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception
— Sunday Adelaja
Ambition, love of power, covetousness, lasciviousness, pride, anger, and revenge - were all respected.
— Leo Tolstoy
Our covetousness will put us under unbelievable bondages
— Sunday Adelaja
covetousness. But,
— William Shakespeare
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
— William Shakespeare
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
— Thomas Hoving
Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
— Frances Osborne
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
— John Milton
Even envy, wants to even the score.
— Anthony Liccione
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
— Nicolas Chamfort
