Quotes About Covetousness

I keep what's mine, and I do not share.

I'm pea green with envy

There's always jealous people out there.

I was always jealous of something getting more attention.

To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Money brings jealousy and bitterness.

Is there any way to safeguard and acquire wealth? Yes, there is one sure way: namely, never to covet the wealth of another.

There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to bitterly want what they can't have and ungratefully not want what is readily available to them.

Assaulted as I am by ambition, covetousness, rashness and superstition, and having such enemies to life as that within me, should I start wondering about the motions of the Universe?

All your jewels are mine to plunder.

Like hounds at a feast, people gather round the table of tyranny, eager for tasty scraps tossed on the floor. Not everyone will wag their tail for a tyrant, but most will, if he first makes them salivate with hate and gives license to their covetous impulses by making them feel it is only their due. Many would rather take than earn. "Tyrants make the envious comfortable with their greed.

Like hounds at a feast, people gather round the table of tyranny, eager for tasty scraps tossed on the floor. Not everyone will wag their tail for a tyrant, but most will, if he first makes them salivate with hate and gives license to their covetous impulses by making them feel it is only their due. Many would rather take than earn.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

A foundation is a large amount of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

It's not my fault everybody wants me

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

A inveja é um cego que quer arrancar os olhos do outro.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre.