WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:35:40 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg coveting – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Bierce, Ambrose -- “Deserve,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1882-03-03) https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/84398/ https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/84398/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:41:22 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=84398 DESERVE, n. The quality of being entitled to what somebody else obtains.


Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Deserve,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1882-03-03)
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Not collected in later books. ]]> https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/84398/feed/ 0 84398 Marlowe, Christopher -- The Jew of Malta, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 124ff (c. 1590) https://wist.info/marlowe-christopher/80105/ https://wist.info/marlowe-christopher/80105/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:11:12 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=80105 FERNEZE: Excesse of wealth is cause of covetousnesse:
And covetousnesse, oh ’tis a monstrous sinne.


Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Jew of Malta, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 124ff (c. 1590)
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The Governor of Malta, having just appropriated Barabas' entire estate to help pay off the Turks. ]]> https://wist.info/marlowe-christopher/80105/feed/ 0 80105