Quotes About Pickpocket

#1. If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Baba Hari Dass

#2. I should have been honored to have been part of the best pickpocket incident of the century, but instead I was just mad.

Embee

#3. People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

Edna Ferber

#4. What's the best part of being in Hermes cabin?
Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.
Travis: Or prank.
Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.

Rick Riordan

#5. She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.

Tamora Pierce

#6. It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

Ali Smith

#7. Telling secrets to a writer is like embracing a pickpocket.

David Grossman

#8. A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Harry Houdini

#9. If a pickpocket meets a saint, he sees only his pockets." Then he'd get up and leave. Or he'd write, "If you wear shoeleather, the whole earth is covered with leather." These were his ways of teaching me about how motivation affects perception.

Ram Dass

#10. I have been robbed a bunch of times. And now that I know how to pickpocket, I understand why I have been pickpocketed so many times.

Margot Robbie

#11. What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.

Redd Foxx

#12. February air slid into the thin material of Kami's dress like a sly pickpocket, warmth stolen before she knew it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#13. [S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other social program.

Leonard Read

#14. We were two of a kind, the only difference being that he was reverential before all the traditional word magic, and I would steal it if I could. He came to the tradition as a pilgrim, I as a pickpocket.

Wallace Stegner

#15. You're a pickpocket right? That's cool. But you don't do it for the money, do you?"
"Maybe the end." I said abruptly.
"The end?"
"What will happen to me in the end. What happens to people who live the way I do? That's what I'd like to know.

Fuminori Nakamura

#16. Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

Martyn V. Halm

#17. A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.

Will Rogers

#18. No married woman ever trusts her husband absolutely, nor does she ever act as if she did trust him. Her utmost confidence is as wary as an American pickpocket's confidence that the policeman on the beat will stay bought.

H.L. Mencken

#19. The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

Mark Twain

#20. A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Warren Buffett

#21. Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Sam Harris

#22. Never let a pickpocket bump into you if you can help it

Pseudonymous Bosch

#23. The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

Harry Houdini

#24. The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

Joseph Sobran

#25. I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.

Douglas Adams

#26. A good pickpocket isn't afraid of intimacy.

Martyn V. Halm

#27. If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.

Dada Bhagwan

#28. My chief task has been to conquer fear. The public sees only the thrill of the accomplished trick; they have no conception of the tortuous preliminary self-training that was necessary to conquer fear.

Harry Houdini

#29. There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.

Julia Cameron

#30. NASA should be at the forefront in the collection of scientific evidence and debunking the current hysteria over human-caused, or Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW). Unfortunately, it is becoming just another agency caught up in the politics of global warming, or worse, politicized science.

Walter Cunningham

#31. We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

Mary Baker Eddy

#32. If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

Vicky McClure

#33. Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art - a euphemism - tamed wilderness.

Dejan Stojanovic

#34. That man tried to picka my frienda's pocketoni!

David Sedaris