Quotes and Sayings About Covetousness

advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.
-- Ann Bridge

#Vanity #Advertising #Covetousness

He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
-- Cato the Elder

#Fear Of Death #Lost #Covetousness

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.
-- Francis Xavier

#Confession #Heard #Covetousness

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
-- John Milton

#Modesty #Rich #Covetousness

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.
-- Joseph Hall

#Gratitude #Covetousness

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.
-- Lucy Larcom

#Character #Curse #Covetousness

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Mother #Covetousness