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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)
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)
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)
Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own. [Lat., Alieni appetens sui profusus.]
Author: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus)
Source: Catilina (V)
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)
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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