Top 100 Quotes About Thief
#1. The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.
Zhuangzi
#2. I am a true man, neither thief nor tracker. I need your Ring: that you know now; but I give you my word that I do not desire to keep it. Will you not at least let me make trial of my plan? Lend me the Ring!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#4. 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
#5. Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
Elizabeth Lesser
#6. 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
#7. You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell
#8. A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
William Shakespeare
#9. My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
#10. Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will find, And those who reform will be forgiven; Why the good will be rewarded, And the thief who is cunning will escape.
Laozi
#11. Is it stealing if you steal from another thief?
Diana Prince
#12. As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?
Megan Whalen Turner
#13. 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
#14. 10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Anonymous
#15. 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
#16. Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
#17. A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
Cat Stevens
#18. Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
Dean Koontz
#19. Look under your bed and you will know the greatest thief in your room.
ABC
#20. 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
#21. For those who may not know this, Madeline recruited me specifically to help hunt and take out a serial soul thief-"
"I call him Cap'n Crunch," Luca interrupted, and was rewarded with a roomful of frowns. "You know. Because he's a cereal thief?
Rachel Vincent
#22. 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
#23. The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.
John Cassian
#24. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.
Megan Whalen Turner
#25. Goddamn sneaking candy thief found my cache"
Peabody pursed her lips "You had candy in the file cabilnet." she angled her head "Under M?"
"M for MINE damn it
J.D. Robb
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.
Woody Allen
#29. I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
Joe Garagiola
#31. Your topsoil's a disaster area - it's starved for nitrogen, it's been fertilized for years by the criminally insane, and whatever thief put in your irrigation system ought to be flogged through the fleet.
Peter S. Beagle
#32. Even if he was a thief, he was my thief. I could not push him away anymore.
Janet Lee Carey
#33. 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
#34. The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#35. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.
J. B. Smoove
#36. Even a thief may have honor, and even a jinni may have a heart.
Jessica Khoury
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. 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
#41. Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.
Henry Fielding
#42. Lila Bard might have been a thief but she wasn't a beggar. And
V.E Schwab
#43. 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
#44. To take so much punctuation in one hit initially sounds audacious, but perhaps the thief thought no one would notice as most readers never get that far into Ulysses - you will recall the theft of chapter sixty-two from Moby-Dick, where no one noticed?
Jasper Fforde
#45. If I am a thief, it's because of private property.
Facundo Cabral
#46. 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
#47. Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
Amy Harmon
#48. 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
#49. Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.
James Lee Burke
#50. I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift,
I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef
Diamond D
#51. 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
#54. 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
#55. A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen. The thief is described as being armed and fabulous.
David Letterman
#56. Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.
Jim Rohn
#57. Lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!
Rick Riordan
#58. Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
Karl Kraus
#59. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?'
Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight.
'You have your answer, Little Thief.
Megan Whalen Turner
#64. 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
#65. Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?
Jethro Tull
#67. Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.
Curtis Jackson
#68. 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
#70. A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
Criss Jami
#71. 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
#72. The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
William Shakespeare
#73. The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#78. The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.
Dwight L. Moody
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes
#84. another copy of the Unsuspecting Thief into the film show. She returned his smile. "Where's Mom?" Using his head, Mr. Hastings pointed to his wife in a heated debate with a tall sandy-haired man. Although his back was turned to Spencer, he looked vaguely familiar. From the
Jewel Amethyst
#85. I'm a thief, not a prophet. Sometimes, we just have to be what the job requires.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. Within the hour, Abraham Ravenwood was denounced as the Devil, a cheat, a scoundrel, a no-goodnik, and a thief.
Kami Garcia
#87. He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti
#88. 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
#89. The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.
Alaa Al Aswany
#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
#92. I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.
Carl Palmer
#93. Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth
To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.
Bhartrhari
#94. Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add
Jenny kissed me!
Leigh Hunt
#95. [On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
Whoopi Goldberg
#96. Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?
Jim Rohn
#97. And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin
#98. You must be the most beautiful and sophisticated thief I have ever met. Secretly you stole my heart without my knowledge.
Debasish Mridha
#99. 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
#100. 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
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