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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. -- Winston Churchill
I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers. -- Jesse Spencer
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others. -- Otto Rank
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. -- William Shakespeare
Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening. -- Michael J. Saylor
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -- William Shakespeare
I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies. -- Kat Dennings
There are so many roles on TV that I don't covet. I see them, and I'm glad I don't have to play them. -- Evangeline Lilly
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal. -- F. Sionil Jose
Investors covet past improvements but also always believe pricing unimaginable future creativity and efficiency gains is Pollyannaish. And they're always wrong. Bet on it. -- Kenneth Fisher
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument. -- Leon Kass
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours. -- Lao Tzu
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
We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura. -- Menachem Begin
All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself. -- Jesus Christ
The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data. -- Hubert Burda
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. -- Jules Verne
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. -- Gary Oldman
All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.' -- Freida Pinto
Do not covet your ideas. -- Paul Arden
Compliment but do not covet. -- Christopher Moore
Change, change,--we all covet change. -- Nicolas Chamfort
We all covet wealth, but not its perils. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Those who covet much suffer from the want. -- Horace
People always covet what they themselves do not possess. -- Walter Moers
Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much. -- Horace
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. -- Arthur Hugh Clough
I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives. -- Chris Killip
Women are happy to possess a man whom all women covet. -- Honore de Balzac
The more of Heaven we cherish, the less of Earth we covet. -- David Berg
I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold. -- Hans Christian Andersen
Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall. -- John H. Vandenberg
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar. -- W. C. Fields
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less. -- Shane Claiborne
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee. -- Edmund Spenser
Guys who can't take care of their own women always covet other guys' women -- Kang Min-hyuk
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of our souls, makes us covet that which hurts us most. -- Philip Massinger
Sufficient to say, greed is a deadly deed. You shall not covet your neighbor's goods. -- Saint Patrick
It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The more of heaven there is in our lives, the less of earth we shall covet. -- Charles Spurgeon
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor. -- Thomas a Kempis
Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. -- Ovid
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy. -- Gary Shteyngart
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. -- Epictetus
...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?.. -- John Geddes
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet. -- Phyllis McGinley
in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. -- Mark Twain
I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being. -- Lena Dunham
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
My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them. -- Charlie Hunnam
You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors. -- Laozi
we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same. -- Karen Baker-Fletcher
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free. -- John Adams
It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't. -- Max Beerbohm
Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away. -- John Chamberlain

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