Quotes About Covetousness

HOW COULD anything originate out of its opposite? For example, truth out of error? or the Will to Truth out of the will to deception? or the generous deed out of selfishness? or the pure sun-bright vision of the wise man out of covetousness?

What did the old man want?" "Your husband's money, just like everyone else." "But not you, eh?" Her voice was sardonic. "Not me," I said. "Money costs too much.

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

It is in our biology, this reptilian feeling of wanting what the next guy has.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

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.

Thou shalt not covet, but traditionApproves all forms of competition.

He who covets is a poor wretch, because he longs for what he can not have. But he who has naught, and covets naught, is rich, although you may think him but a lowly knave.

We're like two dogs in battle on their own; They fought all day but neither got the bone, There came a kite above them, nothing loth, And while they fought he took it from them both.

Covetous of others' possessions, he [Catiline] was prodigal of his own.

I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)

I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

tik?jim? tur?ti - pavyd?tina dalia, net jei niekas apie tai nežinot?. (7-8)

the Pope replied, "What can you preach to the people? If on humility, you yourselves are the proudest of the world, puffed up, pompous and sumptuous in luxuries. If on poverty, you are so covetous that all the benefices in the world are not enough for you. If on chastity—but we will be silent on this, for God knoweth what each man does and how many of you satisfy your lusts.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

No crime in wanting a little more

Having much makes us greedy.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

They make a religion of being greedy.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Greed is the worst thing.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.