The covetous person is always in want.
Covetousness is the father of unfulfilled desires.
Covetousness is always filling a bottomless vessel.
The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by coveting more.
Covet wealth, and want it; don't, and luck will grant it.
Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.
He who covets the belongings of someone else loses his own.
Philippe to his mother "do stop chasing after a carriage that has a runaway mare.
The woman who does not covet the possessions of her husband is in love with another man.
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
Hannibal Lecter: First principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek? Clarice Starling: He kills women... Hannibal Lecter: No. That is...
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 ...
Be thrifty, but not covetous.
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.
Whatever worldly thing we may covet - zealously striving to obtain and then retain - never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed always escalate into a vicious spiral, as we seek greater and greater gratificati...
The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
