Quotes About Covet

You want her in every quadrant like a desperate fool.

she didn't do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.

She didn't do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.

Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.

We'll find new stuff to want.

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.

We all envy other people's luck.

They agreed, tacitly, to admire—but not covet—the red flowers. Mrs. Korjev liked the very redness of them. She had always been angry that the Communists had co-opted that color, for otherwise it would have evoked an unbridled happiness in her. Then again, the Russian soul, conditioned by a thousand years of angst, really wasn't equipped for unbridled happiness, so it was probably for the best.

Ser-se canhoto é circunstância digna de inveja

Nor did ever a miser prize his treasure as did I prize the knife.

She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

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

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Think of earthly treasure As a thing that cannot last; Oh! judge of future pleasure By the false joys of the past; Thou wilt learn how to disdain All that mortals covet most, Slow to grasp what thou may'st gain, Slow to mourn what thou hast lost.

Are you enviable? How can you make yourself enviable?

And I do envy him, Emma. In one respect he is the object of my envy.

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

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.

I've wanted to get my claws on it for years. I assume you read it. What happens next? Say the words 'Wasp dies slowly and horribly' and I'll make you my heir.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

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

Make them want to give you the thing you're taking.

Covet, v. This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

A girl can still admire, can't she? Even those who can't afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn't for me didn't mean I couldn't covet the merchandise.