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Covetousness Quotes (page 2)

If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone. Jane Austen
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess. They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess. Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain. William Shakespeare
Guy de Maupassant quote: "I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing"
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing Guy de Maupassant
The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man. Jonathan Franzen
I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire. Stephenie Meyer
Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. Sun Tzu
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? Aldous Huxley
Camille Paglia quote: "Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to..."
Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. Camille Paglia
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have. Daniel Defoe
Zane Grey quote: "When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting."
When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting. Zane Grey
Mark Twain quote: "in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only..."
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. Mark Twain
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone! Jane Austen
It is right that the influence of the Government should be known in every humble home as the guardian of frugal comfort and content, and a defense against unjust exactions, and the unearned tribute persistently coveted by the selfish and designing. It is right that efficiency and honesty in public service should not be sacrificed to partisan greed; and it is right that the suffrage of our people should be pure and free. Grover Cleveland
I surveyed the weapon inquisitively. A hideous notion struck me: how powerful I should be possessing such an instrument! I took it from his hand, and touched the blade. He looked astonished at the expression my face assumed during a brief second: it was not horror, it was covetousness. He snatched the pistol back, jealously; shut the knife, and returned it to its concealment. Emily Bronte

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