Quotes About Burglars

#1. I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

Werner Herzog

#2. [it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

Mike Gorman

#3. They were a wonderful set of burglars, the people who were running San Francisco when I first came to town in 1923, wonderful because, if they were stealing, they were doing it with class and style.

Sally Stanford

#4. When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

Bob Woodward

#5. Ponies take some catching, I believe, after a long start. And so do burglars,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge."
We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.

Holly Black

#7. Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. Tact ops is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.

Ronald Kessler

#9. There have been only five burglars in the history of robbery who have specialized in rope. All five of these burglars were caught and sent to prison, which is why scarcely any people lock up their rope for safekeeping.

Lemony Snicket

#10. The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it.

Ian Pattison

#12. Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana ... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.

Dan Quayle

#13. burglars are idiot masters of the built environment, drunk Jedis of architectural space.

Geoff Manaugh

#14. Ove is fifty-nine. He drives a Saab. He's the kind of man who points at people he doesn't like the look of, as if they were burglars and his forefinger a policeman's flashlight.

Fredrik Backman

#15. Since the white cops ventured over only when they needed a Negro to conveniently arrest for some crime, the residents had no protection from pickpockets and thieves and burglars, scofflaws and roughnecks, moonshiners and drunks and rapists.

Thomas Mullen

#16. We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

Robin Williams

#17. The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

Elias Canetti

#18. Waterside was poor. Hillside was rich. Waterside stank. Hillside was clean. Waterside had thieves. Hillside had bankers -I'm sorry, burglars.

Patrick Rothfuss

#19. Burglars are getting very clever these days. Last night, my wife woke me up, "Darling! Darling! There's a burglar downstairs!!" So I go down, check every room and don't find anyone. Then I realized I don't have a wife and when I went back upstairs my bed and TV were gone.

Steve Evans

#20. I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

Nina Bawden

#21. Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.?

Kenneth W. Royce

#22. The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind -jump in.

Charles R. Swindoll

#23. Actors and burglars work better at night.

Cedric Hardwicke

#24. Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

Miles Kington

#25. Now that I thought of it, perhaps whacking the burglar wasn't quite ... necessary.
It occurred to me that he said "Hi." I thought he did, anyway. He said hi. Do burglars usually
greet their victims? Hi. I'd like to rob your house. Does that work for you?

Kristan Higgins

#26. Better locks just means better burglars.

Marty Rubin

#27. Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

Bertrand Russell

#28. Congratulations! We're reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!

Scott Lynch

#29. If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen.

Sam Ervin

#30. But I couldn't think it more hateful of them to have taken my fur tippet. Burglars never seem to realize one might feel the cold. How would they like it if I took away their wife's shawl?

Nancy Mitford

#31. Miss Greenshaw appeared to have no fear of burglars, and was probably justified, as most things in the house weighed several tons and were of no marketable value.

Agatha Christie

#32. You're like rottweilers - they protect you from burglars, but nothing protects you from them.

Dia Reeves

#33. You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

Saint Augustine

#34. To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em.

Ted Nugent

#35. What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

#36. We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

Ross Macdonald

#37. I was afraid of burglars and Indian thugs and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper, when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a take-over bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert.

Graham Greene

#38. Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

Charles Portis

#39. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

Vince Vaughn

#40. Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

James Chiles

#41. We're cat burglars baby. You gotta use your cat vision." Syn laughed quietly again. Furi

A.E. Via

#42. Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

Grenville Kleiser

#43. Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne

Rachel Caine

#44. Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late!

Israelmore Ayivor

#45. But he's nice," Barby objected.

Tom Bishop smiled without humor. "Most pleasant and interesting man I ever knew was a burglar.

John Blaine

#46. Don't throw a baby at anything - even a burglar.

Eugene Mirman

#47. A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

O. Henry