Honest Thief Quotes

#1. Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Robert Browning

#2. When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.
[When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]

George Herbert

#3. Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.

George MacDonald

#4. Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

Guy De Maupassant

#5. He created us to love Him, and something unexplainably beautiful happens when we direct all of who we are at delighting in all of who He is. It is proper worship of the One who is worthy.

Stephen Kendrick

#6. But she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud to enter the only other female profession generally available.

Terry Pratchett

#7. When you feel happy, you look beautiful.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#8. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

William Blake

#10. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.

Alaa Al Aswany

#12. Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)

Louis L'Amour

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

John Andreas Widtsoe

#14. Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

Hedrick Smith

#15. Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

Pharrell Williams

#16. You cannot con an honest man.

Ally Carter

#17. Don't fight a fact, deal with it.

Hugh Prather

#18. An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. The wise need the least advice,
but seek it the most.
The foolish need counsel the most,
but seek it the least.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.

Flann O'Brien

#21. The Thief who has no opportunity to steal, thinks he is an Honest man.

Anupam Kher

#22. I wanted to live in a house. I wanted to have a place where I could record at home - all of these things I'd wanted to do for years.

Bill Callahan

#23. Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

Brian Selznick

#24. But in the end, financial decisions aren't about getting rich. They're about getting what you want - getting happy.

Carl Richards

#25. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.

Adriano Bulla

#26. Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Frances Hardinge