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Coveting Quotes

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid
Desire, Coveting, Strive

Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.

Jeffrey R. Holland
Self, Doe, Coveting

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

Otto Rank
Family, Wife, Coveting

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Ovid
Desire, Coveting, Strive

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Winston Churchill
Coveting, Nations
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.363, Da Capo Press

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

Thomas Harris
Doe, Needs, Coveting
Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.296, Macmillan

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.

Arthur Hugh Clough
Sports, Competition, Coveting
"The Latest Decalogue" l. 19 (1862)

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Camille Paglia
School, Feminism, Coveting

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Lady Gregory
Use, Coveting, Sin
Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.96, Wildside Press LLC

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