Quotes of: Covetous Keyword

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

John Milton

Ardelia Mapp: Is this Lecter's handwriting? "Clarice, doesn't this random scattering of sites seem desperately random - like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter." Clarice Starling: "Desperately random." What does he mean? Ardelia Mapp...

The Silence of the Lambs

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

Thomas Browne

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Ezra Taft Benson

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.

Michel de Montaigne

I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

Kat Dennings

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare

But, and here comes the rub, all of us feel that we are in complete control of our desire for things. We would never admit to an ungovernable spirit of covetousness. The problem is that we, like the alcoholic, are unable to recognize the disease once...

Freedom of Simplicity: Finding Harmony in a Complex World

If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just because he can keep the commandments. It is just because he does not want to kill but to excite to life that a pistol is still as exciting to him as it is ...

Manalive

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

Otto Rank

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

Idries Shah

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

E.B. Hudspeth The Resurrectionist The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

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

Daniel Defoe

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

Michael J. Saylor

A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman

Uneñ Ameji

When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

Zane Grey

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Chanakya

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Lady Gregory

Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it.

Kenneth Fisher

If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.

Donna Lynn Hope