Thieves Quotes

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

Pleasure is a thief to business.

Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Opportunity makes a thief.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

My favorite movie ever is Bicycle Thieves.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.