Quotes About Covetousness

O how I envied him his feelings!

Much wants more and loses all.

The covetous are poor givers.

they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

if you are successful, most people are envious and they covet your success

The pillars of human society are covetousness, fear, and corruption," retorted Grau. "Man is evil, but loves the good—when others do it.

Human greed knows no limits. – Nivellen

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

All of us are greedy to some extent.

When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our jewels, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?

He can go about his business, so completely satisfied to see and be part of the divine Order of Things that he will never even be tempted. When all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness, for drearier forms of pleasure?

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?

A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

It is my sad observation that some men always want more.

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

Mine first—mine last— mine even in the grave!

I never met a man who had such a love of money.

Greed and envy took from a man's heart everything but—well, greed and envy.