Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 144.

• Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
  • Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (c. 1592), Act I, scene 2.

• Quicquid servatur, cupimus magis: ipsaque furem
  Cura vocat. Pauci, quod sinit alter, amant.
  • We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
  • Ovid, Amorum (16 BC), III. 4. 25.

• Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor.
  • True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
  • Phaedrus, Fables, II. 1. 12.

• Alieni appetens sui profusus.
  • Covetous of the property of others and prodigal of his own.
  • Sallust, Catilina, V.

• I am not covetous for gold,
  Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
  It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
  Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
  But if it be a sin to covet honor
  I am the most offending soul alive.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act IV, scene 3, line 24.

• When workmen strive to do better than well,
  They do confound their skill in covetousness.
  • William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act IV, scene 2, line 28.