The covetous man. [ Horace ]
Covetous men are shamefully rich. [ Proverb ]
Poor and liberal, rich and covetous. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Covetous men's chests are rich, not they. [ Proverb ]
The covetous spends more than the liberal. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Covetous men live drudges to die wretches. [ Proverb ]
Be charitable before wealth maket thee covetous. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
A covetous man is good to none, but worst to himself. [ Proverb ]
The luxurious want many things, the covetous all things. [ Proverb ]
A poor man wants some things, a covetous man all things. [ Proverb ]
A covetous man does nothing that he should do, till he dies. [ Proverb ]
Even covetous men have sometimes their intervals of generosity. [ Proverb ]
Not to be covetous is money, not to be a purchaser is a revenue. [ Cicero ]
A covetous man is a dog in a wheel, that roasts meat for others. [ Proverb ]
He's so covetous, that he will not give even a cup of cold water. [ Proverb ]
Youth is covetous of honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Covetous men are condemned to dig in the mines for they know not who. [ Proverb ]
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. [ Tillotson ]
Riches have made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men rich. [ Scotch Proverb ]
Riches have made more covetous men, than covetousness hath made rich men. [ Proverb ]
Covetous rich men are not so well fed, clothed, or respected, as other men. [ Proverb ]
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water and yet thirsty. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. [ Henry Ward Beechen ]
The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world. [ South ]
The covetous man explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. [ Saadi ]
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it. [ Alexander Wilson ]
Some men are so covetous, as if they were to live forever; and others so profuse, as if they were to die the next moment. [ Aristotle ]
And in his lap a masse of coyne he told And turned upside down, to feede his eye And covetous desire with his huge treasury. [ Spenser ]
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say. Take care of the pence; for the pounds will take care of themselves. [ Lord Chesterfield ]
The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. [ Thomas Adams ]
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that it may be said to possess him. [ Bacon ]
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied. [ Johnson ]
Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune. [ Rev. T. Adams ]
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]