Covets Quotes
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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More Covets Quotes
Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.
halle berry— On her role in the film Things We Lost In The Fire — Western Mail staff (February 1, 2008) "From the grave to the cradle", Western Mail.
He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
phaedrus— Book I, fable 4, line 1.
He covets less Than misery itself would give; rewards His deeds with doing them, and is content To spend the time to end it.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act II, scene 2, line 130.
He's not out seeing a sight but the rock crystal thing to see the startling El Greco brimming with inner light that covets nothing that it has let go. This then you may know as the hero.
marianne moore— "The Hero" (The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003))
The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just and amiable, perfects the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great employment and concern of him who covets as well to be wise and good, as agreeable and polite.
— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), "Miscellany III".
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Robert Herrick— Robert Herrick, The Covetous Still Captive.
When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.
— Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 85.
He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own.
— Book I, fable 4, line 1.
