Quotes and Sayings about Covetousness

"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Covetousness, Evil, Poverty)

"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
- Christopher Marlowe
(Related: Wealth, Cause, Covetousness, Excess)

"True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves."
- John Milton
(Related: Covetousness, Modesty)

"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
(Related: Covetousness, Man, Treasure)

"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Nature, Beginning, Covetousness, Devil, End, First, Vice)

"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Covetousness, Desire, Sin)