#covet

I don't know exactly what covetise is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offence at the beauty of it. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#happiness #beauty

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#brave man #covetous #employ #employer #man

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. ↗

— John Milton

#covetous #covetousness #him #his #jewel

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#am #country #covet #envious #glory

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#desire #having #sin

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#enjoy #man #millions #money #nothing

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#campus #coveted #get #important #important thing

When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me. ↗

— William P. Smith

#coveting #envy #gifts #theology #love

Love is a war of all for all. That is why we must covet our neighbors as ourselves. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #love #neighbor #war

Be thrifty, but not covetous. ↗

— George Herbert

#thrifty