Quotes About Covetousness

the new consumerism promoted all the deadly sins (lust, covetousness, gluttony, pride, envy) except perhaps anger and sloth.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

You steal the things that you covet while you take the things the original owner is incapable of appreciating

He who is greedy is always in want.

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

Evil is always fuelled by jealousy.

Jealousy is the root of all evil.

There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.

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.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

He who never has enough, never has anything.

O accurst craving for gold!

envy is second only to self-pity as the most dangerous of all emotions.

Avarice, the sphincter of the heart.

Envy aims very high.

They hungered after gold like pigs.

[Spoken by Gollum:] Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.

People are just greedy animals, after all.

The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more than three feet square, we have the strongest craving

All envy is proportionate to desire.

A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)