Quotes About Robbers

#1. I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates.

James Spader

#2. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth; - such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters.

Lao-Tzu

#3. Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

Christina Stead

#4. L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

Jay Leno

#5. I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

Warren Buffett

#6. Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.

Lloyd Bridges

#7. You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Clive Anderson

#8. I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.

Joey Comeau

#9. In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

William Irwin Thompson

#10. People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Cal Thomas

#11. But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind. This

John Calvin

#12. "From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Miguel De Cervantes

#13. It's an awful snug place for orgies." "What orgies?" "I dono. But robbers always have orgies, and of course we've got to have them, too.

Mark Twain

#14. So the story goes, so I'm told
The people he knew were
Less than golden hearted
Gamblers and robbers
Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers
Like you and me

Dave Matthews

#15. If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Joe Mantegna

#18. Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.

Mark Twain

#20. I only want to talk to you. The robbers are all in bed by now. Drunks, drifters, and poets are the only ones up this late at night.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. I regarded the pumpkin thief's worst nightmare: splotchy coat, tattered ears, sleeping death rattle. "He gums robbers to death?" I asked. "What if they bring biscuits?

Joan Bauer

#22. If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.

Dada Bhagwan

#23. Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.

James Joyce

#24. You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap.

Ambrose Bierce

#25. Consul', remarked the detective, dogmatically, 'great robbers always resemble honest folks.

Julius Verne

#26. What kind of a hick town is this, anyway?" she murmured. "A bank is held up and the sheriff is in church. What's he doing, praying that somebody will catch the robbers for him?

Robert Bloch

#27. Once I became a cop. I dived into that career. I never wanted to be an LAPD officer because I thought 'LA is super dangerous, not the place I'd want to be a cop'. But as a boy of course I was into guns, cops and robbers, so that's why it was cool to me and thought 'Yeah I could do this job'.

Eric Hernandez

#28. We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

Victor Hugo

#29. The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#30. For all whose hope is in God
storms may rage
they will not be shaken,
robbers may come
nothing is taken,
troubles may endure
they are never forsaken.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. Our news bulletins were full of killings and death, so it was natural for Atal to think of coffins and graves. Instead of hide-and-seek and cops and robbers, children were now playing army vs. Taliban.

Malala Yousafzai

#32. If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.

Lao-Tzu

#33. What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers
shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

William Shakespeare

#34. The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Lysander Spooner

#35. The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Lao-Tzu

#36. The Free Hawks is fighters, I says.
Warriors, she says, like you. An occasional highway robbers.

Moira Young

#37. One man is proud when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears ... Are these not robbers?

Marcus Aurelius

#38. In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches.

Moshe Feiglin

#39. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Victor Hugo

#40. You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny.

Chris O'Donnell

#41. Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#42. Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.

Gus Van Sant

#43. The priests were deferential, siding with Rome, and those who opposed them were said to be robbers and thugs, my father and his friends among

Alice Hoffman

#44. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Lysander Spooner

#45. To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.

John Sentamu

#46. Where can you steer clear of bandits? Where do the drugs go over? Where can you avoid getting kidnapped by the narcos? Where is there a spot left with no wall, no robbers, and no narcos? Nobody has been able to answer this last question.

Oscar Martinez

#47. I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'

Mariska Hargitay

#48. In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

Sherman Alexie

#49. You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'
No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.

Richelle Mead

#50. The Gadianton Robbers from the Book of Mormon are loose among us. The King-men, and women, are running our government. And, worst of all, we are blindly electing them, or appointing them so they can continue to destroy the things we cherish most.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#51. Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.

Harvey Keitel

#52. No! no! My engagement is with no bride
the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man
I have been slain by robbers
my body lies at Wurtzburg
at midnight I am to be buried
the grave is waiting for me
I must keep my appointment!

Washington Irving

#53. I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

John King

#54. As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.

Robert Jordan

#55. Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Edward Dahlberg

#56. These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Lysander Spooner

#57. Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

Jules Verne

#58. Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

William Hazlitt

#59. Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Walter Benjamin

#60. The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

George Orwell

#61. At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#62. Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Laozi

#63. So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

Scott Lynch

#64. It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Nicolas Cage

#65. And as robbers prove sometimes gallant soldiers, so soldiers often prove brave robbers, so near an alliance there is between those two sorts of life.

Thomas More

#66. When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.

Vladimir Lenin

#67. Somewhere across the interstate
Exposure to the drug trade of emotions
And the tsunami and typhoon of feelings
Has made us all cops and robbers
Of what we keep in the cavities
In our chests

Iain S. Thomas

#68. I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.

Eve Ensler

#69. And in your deranged mind, what do you think the lesson of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' is?" Alex challenged him. "Easy," Conner said. "Lock your doors! Robbers come in all shapes and sizes. Even curly-haired little girls can't be trusted." Alex grunted again and crossed her arms.

Chris Colfer

#70. I didn't like the looks of those other grave robbers. You were the first women who's noticed me in years and I thought you were beautiful."
"Are you flirting?"
"If I were alive, perhaps," he replied, "but as it is, I don't think we could be more than friends.

Amy Neftzger

#71. The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Honore De Balzac

#72. Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.

Thomas Merton

#73. The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller ... Knowledge is experience.

Paracelsus

#74. In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry.

Xiaolu Guo

#75. The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

Henry Van Dyke

#76. A kiss on the lips and a dagger in the heart,' as in Schiller's Robbers.7

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#77. The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
...
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers.

Lao-Tzu

#78. I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Broderick Crawford

#79. Who wears masks?'
'Bank robbers?'
'No.'
'Really ugly people?'
'No.'
'Halloween? People wear masks at Halloween.'
'Yes! They do!' He flung his arms wide in delight.
'So that's important?'
'Not even a little bit. But it's true.

Neil Gaiman

#80. Every State looks upon its neighbours as at bottom a horde of robbers, who will fall upon it as soon as they have the opportunity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#81. I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.

Will Rogers

#82. You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

Diana Wynne Jones

#83. The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

John White Geary

#84. Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#85. All told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.
Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave,

Mark Twain

#86. The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#87. There was nothing left for the dollar, nothing except a cold, cruel end.
Until, that is, the bank robbers burst into the back room.

T.R. Whittier

#88. Well, our operations are definable as robbery and murder," he agreed. "Space Vikings are professional robbers and murderers.

H. Beam Piper

#89. Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

O. Henry

#90. 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.

Daniel Defoe

#91. Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Andre Braugher

#92. 45When Jesus entered the temple courts, he began to drive out those who were selling. 46"It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be a house of prayer'[63]; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.

Anonymous

#93. Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us show them that they have power over none.

Epictetus

#94. We recognized the face he was wearing as a mask from our own collections. The happy mask we carry in our back pockets, and like bank robbers whip out when we want to steal some privacy or make an emotional getaway.

Paul Beatty

#95. Fears are undetected robbers, stealing from our present, robbing us of our future and are mostly rooted in our past! EL

Evinda Lepins

#96. It's always fun to play cops and robbers.

Timothy Olyphant

#97. ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Ambrose Bierce

#98. Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

George W. Bush

#99. Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

Berry Gordy

#100. I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor.
MC's be out like bank robbers,
Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor;
DJ ... the getaway driver.

GZA