Quotes Tagged With :covet

Philippe to his mother "do stop chasing after a carriage that has a runaway mare.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.....

Fifties advertising was a dogmatic art, to the point of pretending to be a science.

Desire is insatiable as death, but He who fills all in all can fill it. The capacity of our wishes who....

But could he endure it, that other men knew her in a way that he, Staines, did not? He did not know.

It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real....

Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception

Men fight for lots of different reasons--some good, some really dumb--but as long as we can use our fists,....

I would believe again if I could. In goodness. In magnificence. In simple benevolence. Yet even in these....

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups....