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Tag Name "Covetousness" (68)

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The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
Thomas Adams
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Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.
William Penn
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
Abraham Cowley
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
Ben Jonson
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Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness but envy gets no reward but vexation.
Jeremy Collier
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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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If we are to say no to covetousness, we must learn to say yes to contentment. This involves learning to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5). Much of our discontentment may be traced to expectations that are essentially selfish and more often than not completely unrealistic.
Alistair Begg
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All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.
Derek A. Cuthbert
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The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.
Richard M. Weaver
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It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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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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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe
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We covet what is guarded the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
Ovid
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
Victor Hugo
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
Nicolas Chamfort
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
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The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.
Plutarch
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Youth covets let not this covetousness seduce you.
Friedrich Schiller
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