"Greediness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the longings of pregnancy is with the impulsive and often irresistible longings for food delicacies which are apt to overcome children, and in girls often persist or revive through adolescence and even beyond. Such sudden fits of greediness belong to those kind of normal psychic manifestations which are on the verge of the abnormal into which they occasionally pass. They may occur, however, in healthy, well-bred, and well-behaved children who, ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... what comes of greediness and of trying to be too clever. Now, perhaps, you will learn to ...
— The Mahatma and the Hare • H. Rider Haggard
... her Bertha) seemed to recognize the various dishes, and to prefer some to others. At that time she was twelve years old, but as fully formed in figure as a girl of eighteen, and taller than I was. Then the idea struck me of developing her greediness, and by this means of cultivating some slight power of discrimination in her mind, and to force her, by the diversity of flavors, if not to reason, at any rate to arrive at instinctive distinctions, which would of themselves constitute a kind of process that was necessary ...
— Maupassant Original Short Stories (180), Complete • Guy de Maupassant
... a man so educated be less liable to be entrapped by rival powers, and so escape a common fate of living creatures, some of which (as we all know) are hooked through their own greediness, and often even in spite of a native shyness; but through appetite for food they are drawn towards the bait, and are caught; while others are ...
— The Memorabilia - Recollections of Socrates • Xenophon
... settled himself at the other end of the sofa and fell upon the chicken with extraordinary greediness; at the same time he kept a constant watch on his victim. Kirillov looked at him fixedly with angry aversion, as though ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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