Top 100 Quotes About Stealing
#1. There is nothing lower than the poor stealing from the poor. It's hard enough as it is. We sure as hell don't need to make it even harder on each other.
J.D. Vance
#2. This was music that had not only escaped, but had robbed a bank on the way out. It was music with its sleeves rolled up and its top button undone, raising its hat and grinning and stealing the silver.
Terry Pratchett
#3. One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.
Wil Wheaton
#4. I guess I'm supposed to sit here in this oven like it's 1950, hoping I don't go to hell for stealing a church fan.
K. Martin Beckner
#5. Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?
Diana Prince
#6. I hate all men associated with stealing children,selling & sleeping with children.
Gladys Lawson
#7. I'm not stealing it. We're stranded. This is called borrowing."
"This is called you're crazy.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#8. We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.
Peter Singer
#9. Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
George Orwell
#10. For some reason, when I was in junior high school, my friends and I had, like, a cologne-stealing ring.
James Franco
#11. Stealing is what the army does. Taking your father, and mine.
Markus Zusak
#12. When robbed, the rich cry out for protection and prosecution. When stealing, they expect the judiciary to look the other way.
Steven Erikson
#13. Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
Terry Pratchett
#14. The belief that all wealth comes from stealing is popular in prisons and at Harvard.
George Gilder
#15. But those coins are wishes! You're stealing other people's wishes!"
The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. "If you have money to waste on wishes, you don't need the wishes as badly as I need the money.
Katherine Rundell
#16. A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,
True but for lying,
honest but for stealing,
Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
John Harington
#17. There's a lot of opportunities for scene-stealing if you're a dog.
Alison Brie
#18. There are two ways to grow: by stealing from the competition or by growing the market. The first path is slow and painful and difficult. The second path is where the magic of fast growth kicks in.
Seth Godin
#19. Conned any other women out of their valuables lately ?" she says quietly, so quietly that only he will hear it.
"Nope. I've been too busy stealing handbags and seducing the vulnerable."
Her head shoots up and his eyes lock on hers. He is, she sees with some shock, as furious as she is.
Jojo Moyes
#20. Finny Boone is probably a sociopath. A big, lighter-stealing sociopath, but his eyes are steady and complicated.
Brenna Yovanoff
#21. People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
H.L. Mencken
#22. Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.
And eaten their dinners.
Brandon Sanderson
#23. Don't let someone stealing your quotes !
Achmad
#24. I take his hand and pull him back to me, stealing another kiss, smiling against his lips as he kisses me back.
And kisses me again.
And then some more.
And I know he is mine. For now, for the rest of our lives, no matter what comes next.
Stacey Jay
#25. But always they featured things we believed were wrong in the sight of God. Stealing, lying, murder. Was this what God wanted in times like these? How should a Christian act when evil was in power?
Corrie Ten Boom
#26. The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
Raymond Chandler
#27. Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go ... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends ...
Taylor Swift
#28. In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn't have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.
Conan O'Brien
#29. It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#30. Are you seriously telling me the truth about all this?" I asked.
"I seriously am," he replied. "I was also serious about stealing a fry.
Lindsay Ribar
#31. One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One's own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental (nimit) in that. Really, the account is one's own.
Dada Bhagwan
#33. If, instead of saying that thieves will go to prison or liars will go to hell, we could make people think that stealing is as bad as going to a funeral in a coloured tie, or lying as bad as frying a sausage on the parlour fire, we should achieve a colossal reformation.
FitzRoy James Henry Somerset
#34. In Iraq, four American soldiers have been arrested and charged with stealing a million dollars cash. After hearing about it the Fox network announced plans for a new reality show called 'GI Joe Millionaire.'
Conan O'Brien
#35. Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.
Anuj
#36. You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.
Derek Landy
#37. CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity with the music. I feel that it's not stealing sales from anyone; it's turning people on to the music.
Girl Talk
#38. (The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
John Elder Robison
#39. I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.
Arthur Darvill
#40. Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
Richard Dooling
#41. I like watching
from inside, as if locked away
and stealing the distinct pleasure
of a high school marching band drum section's
pure perfection. How stoically they play
in the exhaust of a fire engine's wake.
Kristen Henderson
#42. My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job.
Kevin Mitnick
#43. Crawling out of the flophouse
I saw the mayor stealing my junk
I doth protest, citizen's arrest
Now my body's in his trunk
Where's the shadow government when you need it?
Where's the shadow government?
It's a bad, bad world!
They Might Be Giants
#44. I'm Ric Flair! The Stylin', profilin', limousine riding, jet flying, kiss-stealing, wheelin' n' dealin' son of a gun!
Ric Flair
#45. Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.
Pope Francis
#46. Creating money and forcing us to accept it is worse than stealing because it attempts to hide how badly we are getting cheated.
Adam Kokesh
#47. 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
#48. That strain again! It had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet as it was before.
William Shakespeare
#49. Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.
Guy Lafleur
#50. Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.
Diane Arbus
#51. And since when is stealing people's possessions the call of God? you are all hypocrites who have suddenly come into power, and you don't know how to handle it
Dalia Sofer
#52. working slowly, destroying the mind, stealing a lifetime of memories, and robbing a person's dignity and identity, in the end leaving them silent.
Cindy Reynes
#53. You can't?" Cyprian barked out a laugh. "The Bloody Baroness does whatever she wants. Even if it means stealing a starship in the middle of the night, crashing it into the side of a mountain, and slaughtering an innocent girl in the process.
Sasha Alsberg
#54. What do you get when you cross an egomaniacal fairy godmother, an arrogant genie, and a couple of wandering plagiarists whose idea of cultural preservation is stealing the stories of unsuspecting villagers and passing them off as their own?
Kate SeRine
#55. It's not stealing, it's retrieving.
Mora Early
#56. People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
Vincent Cassel
#57. Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans
Jeannette Walls
#58. I don't think it's a black and white issue. If a man's family is starving so to speak, I don't think I'll hold it against him for stealing a loaf of bread.
Zach Braff
#59. I don't know which is worse, going to the library or stealing and breaking the laws of Shabbat, but I know what the prophet's talking about when he says one sin begets another.
Pearl Abraham
#60. If you do not value rare treasures, you will stop others from stealing.
Lao-Tzu
#61. There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.
Michael Meade
#62. I'm gonna try to steal home."
I smiled. "Silly Simon, it's not stealing if I wave you in
Alice Clayton
#63. So no, I did not rinse out the damned pickle jar." He flopped on the other bed. "And since I'll be going to hell for breaking into a church and stealing holy water, I'll be sure to mention your name when I get there." He paused. "You're probably on Satan's wish-list anyway.
Suzanne Johnson
#64. At least she was creative. Whoever heard of an angel calling a coven leader a magic-stealing twat waffle?
Deanna Chase
#65. Sometimes people may anger you, but realise that they are stealing your energy. Someone can only steal your energy if YOU allow them to.
Steven Aitchison
#66. A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.
Sam Levenson
#67. It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.
Mick Jagger
#68. A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it's gold pieces be worth that much.
Newton Gatambia
#69. It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.
John Mackey
#70. I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized.
Charles Schumer
#71. Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
Michael Apted
#72. That sort doesn't like to admit she's been reduced to stealing food, thought the cook. Poor soul! It's only a few apples. Lord, if you're watching, those apples are freely given. You don't hold them against her soul. (The cook was in the habit of lecturing the Lord, whom she considered a colleague.)
T. Kingfisher
#73. Thomas slammed his fist on the table, sending eating utensils flying. "Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people."
--from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans
Marilyn Bay Wentz
#75. MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
Eddie Izzard
#76. Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted.
The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?
Terry Pratchett
#77. Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.
Sam Storms
#78. I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
Abraham Verghese
#79. There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#81. When I was four years old, I kept telling my mother that the little boy in our house was stealing things.
Jodi Picoult
#82. Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.
Paul Acampora
#83. Stealing things is everybody's problem. We [Apple Inc.] own a lot of intellectual property, and we don't like when people steal it. So people are stealing stuff and we're optimists. We believe that 80 percent of the people stealing stuff don't want to be; there's just no legal alternative.
Steve Jobs
#84. You owe me money."
"No, I'm pretty sure I won that square."
"You stole it."
"You were drinking maybe a little," Robert suggested.
"You were stealing maybe a little," Abraham said.
"Wasn't I just?" Robert grinned.
Devon Monk
#85. They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
Charles Mingus
#86. Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Doris Lessing
#87. Get the hell down here!" the bride shouted. "You're stealing my thunder.
Debra Anastasia
#88. To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
Roland Barthes
#89. Art is what you can get away with, said somebody or other, which makes it sound like shoplifting or some other minor crime. And maybe that's all it ever was, or is: a kind of stealing. A hijacking of the visual.
Margaret Atwood
#90. Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in his own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.
Duff McKagan
#91. In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#92. There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.
Brian Andreas
#93. But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.
Jupiter Hammon
#94. My dad's cooking was magic in the kitchen. But eventually over the years, his personality changed and his ability to remember recipes failed. He became paranoid and thought people were stealing from him, when often he was just misplacing things.
Tess Gerritsen
#95. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, getting rich, and whipping servants. But you have to shoot him in the end.
Herman J. Mankiewicz
#96. There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.
Jo Walton
#97. A well-read highwayman, who would have thought?" the dowager commented.
"Oh, he absolutely adores books. He plans to retire when he has enough money and furnish his library with hundreds of books. He has already started a collection by stealing all he can find off lords and such.
Anya Wylde
#98. There he went again, stealing my breath, except he wasn't stealing it; I gave it to him freely because he owned me. We owned each other.
Adriane Leigh
#99. You shouldn't have forged my handwriting," I said to Laura privately. "I couldn't forge Richard's. It's too different from ours. Yours was a lot easier." "Handwriting is a personal thing. It's like stealing.
Margaret Atwood
#100. Gee-word?"
"Gods. What were you doin' the day they handed out brains, boy, anyway?"
"Someone was telling a story about stealing a tiger's balls, and I had to stop and find out how it ended.
Neil Gaiman