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6 Quotes for 'Covetousness' in the Database.
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Source: The Jew of Malta (act I, sc. 2)
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We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few
love what they may have.
[Lat., Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem
Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Amorum (III, 4, 25)
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
[Lat., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (II, 1, 12)
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Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own.
[Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.]
Author: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus)
Source: Catilina (V)
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When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness,
And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,
As patches set upon a little breach
Discredit more in hiding of the fault
Than did the fault before it was so patched.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pembroke at IV, ii)
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By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if me my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honor,
I am the most offending soul alive.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, iii)
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