Top 100 Quotes About A Thief
#2. But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.
Mitch Albom
#3. The photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.
Subcomandante Marcos
#4. Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
Samuel Fuller
#5. I'm a thief, not a prophet. Sometimes, we just have to be what the job requires.
Brandon Sanderson
#6. Within the hour, Abraham Ravenwood was denounced as the Devil, a cheat, a scoundrel, a no-goodnik, and a thief.
Kami Garcia
#7. He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti
#8. Jenks made a face. He turned my son into a thief and broke my partner's heart. Why should I give him a draft of consideration?
Kim Harrison
#9. She would say 'Bucket moon'
he would answer 'Ladle moon.'
Night after night sky revealed a
bitten moon, a butcher's moon,
an apple moon, a thief's moon,
a rabbit
'Rabbit moon?'
'Don't you see it?'
'I used to chase rabbits,' she had said,
her voice sweet and tired.
Toby Barlow
#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. 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
#13. If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.
Orson Scott Card
#14. Blessed is the one who aids a thief, hides a thief, revenges a thief, and remembers a thief, for they shall inherit the night.
Scott Lynch
#16. It could have been a thief or a murderer. I considered crying out. A thief would run away, but a murderer would murder me. On the other hand, the murderer would probably murder me if I didn't too. That was his whole thing.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#17. That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.
Sena Jeter Naslund
#18. Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#19. What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
Sitting Bull
#20. A thief might steal from anyone.
Why he's stealing from you is what you need to understand.
Brownell Landrum
#21. Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#22. Time arrives like a friend and then tiptoes away like a thief.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#24. Alzheimer's ... It is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
Nicholas Sparks
#25. When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists.
Henry Hazlitt
#26. Now you are thinking like a thief. Fewer guns and more exits. We'll cure your cowboy ways yet. (Vidocq)
Richard Kadrey
#27. She didn't know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.
Lauren Kate
#28. Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.
Clive Cussler
#30. Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.
Laozi
#31. Who was it that said a magician needs the subtlety of a Jesuit, the daring of a soldier and the wits of a thief? I believe it was meant for a insult, but it has some truth in it.
Susanna Clarke
#32. You stupid cow!" He laughed at her behind those icicle eyes. "You really think anyone is better than you? Everyone's a thief, woman! Waiting for the next terrible thing to do to get ahead of their neighbor. Forty of us around a table weren't enough to convince you of that?
Devon Trevarrow Flaherty
#34. I've always tried to resemble a brave man.
It didn't used to be so hard - and I've had so much practice pretending. After all, when you're a thief, you're always pretending not to be. The same is true when you're poor. And sometimes also when you're in love.
Heidi Heilig
#35. A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
Criss Jami
#37. If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo
#38. Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.
Curtis Jackson
#40. Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?
Jethro Tull
#41. If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.
Man Ray
#42. Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming first a thief and then a corpse.
Thomas More
#43. Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to
season.
Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say,
That Time comes stealing on by night and day?
William Shakespeare
#45. An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.
Luke Scott
#46. The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#48. I never knew you had such a fine eye for fabrics," I said as we continued up the street. "You should have been a tailor instead of a thief."
"I have a fine eye for all things, amira, which is why I'm a thief and not a tailor.
Heidi Heilig
#49. I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift,
I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef
Diamond D
#50. Above the sink in the scratched mirror he looked grubby and bloated, his beard a grizzled mess. He knew what these men could never know: A man is who he is. That doesn't change. A thief is a thief. A bad man stays a bad man underneath. He'd been set at seventeen. "You want to end
Rae Meadows
#51. I've been back less than two weeks, and already I've turned the sweetest girl on Embassy Row into a thief and a conspiracy theorist. Even for me, it is an impressively quick act of corruption.
Ally Carter
#52. If I am a thief, it's because of private property.
Facundo Cabral
#53. Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. 'Odd, isn't it,' he said, '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?
G.K. Chesterton
#54. Lila Bard might have been a thief but she wasn't a beggar. And
V.E Schwab
#55. You download it for free, we get charged back for it.
I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it,
Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit."
So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob,
And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?
Andre Benjamin
#56. These were wise, modern children, and they knew: a mother could be a witch, a child could be a criminal. A librarian could be a thief.
Rebecca Makkai
#57. Even a thief may have honor, and even a jinni may have a heart.
Jessica Khoury
#58. The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
William Shakespeare
#59. Even if he was a thief, he was my thief. I could not push him away anymore.
Janet Lee Carey
#61. Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
Isaac Newton
#62. But Jehovah's* day will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar,* but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be exposed.
Anonymous
#63. Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come,
A thief a warrior and a mole.
Though the quest may take its toll,
We'll march until we reach our goal,
Brian Jacques
#64. A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. "How dare you molest the sea?" asked Alexander. "How dare you molest the whole world?" the pirate replied, and continued: "Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.
Noam Chomsky
#65. Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
Dean Koontz
#66. A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
Cat Stevens
#67. Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
#68. The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.
Walter E. Williams
#69. He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind.
He will come soon to our world just like a thief in the night.
Toba Beta
#70. Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.
Samuel Johnson
#71. I can only thank, as I have within myself many times through the years, this unknown benefactor. She was the one who gave me the last piece of encouragement, a thief's good-luck sign.
Patti Smith
#73. Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.
Barry Hannah
#74. A liar, a thief, and utterly without conscience. But he'll keep to any deal you strike with him.
Leigh Bardugo
#75. no man prepar'd for it; no man consider'd it would come like a Thief in the night, exactly as it happens in the case of death.'74
Niall Ferguson
#76. Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.
Rod Stewart
#77. [S]he stepped out into the yard, like a thief in reverse: breaking and exiting. Stealing herself.
Sarah Cross
#78. I glared at him. "I wish you'd stay out of my room."
"That's a funny joke, princess, when you're talking to a thief.
Heidi Heilig
#79. A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.
Rumi
#80. Immoderation, Mariotta, is a thief of money and intestinal joy, but who'd check it? Not I. Here I am, weeping soft tears of myrrh, to prove it.
Dorothy Dunnett
#81. I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.
Tony Bennett
#82. Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
Aristotle.
#83. What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
John Gunther
#84. You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#85. And if there was little honor in thieving from a thief, he imagined he would feel little shame in it, either.
Helene Wecker
#86. The thief's widow had turned him, before she married him, into a thief of a stupid and terrible kind, because she had made him rob himself.
Salman Rushdie
#87. Does that mean you're a thief too?'
'Yep.'
'What did you steal?'
For a moment, she thought he wasn't going to answer. Then he said, 'Myself.
Lian Tanner
#88. I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
Malorie Blackman
#89. Evie replied with an eye-roll. "Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I'm gone?"
"The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll." Sam smirked.
"You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.
Libba Bray
#90. Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
Orison Swett Marden
#91. Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.
Franz Grillparzer
#92. One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.
Deborah Brown
#93. It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.
Derek R. Audette
#94. I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.
J. B. Smoove
#95. The last few years had taught her that, bizarrely, there might be more to life than money, heists, and adrenaline. A crazy idea, no kidding, and she wasn't entirely convinced yet, but maybe, just maybe, she could be something more than a thief?
Greg Cox
#96. This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life.
Jack Black
#97. Well, I guess I'll become a thief, then," said Pica unhappily. "though I don't think I'll be much good. I'm a pacifist, you see?
Keith Miller
#98. Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.
Charles Stanley
#99. I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.
Leona Helmsley
#100. If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
