Quotes About Thieves And Liars

#1. To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else's work and shove it into our pockets. Then we run home and try to make it our own.

Christopher Stocking

#2. Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.

A.E.H. Veenman

#3. Personal happiness is always a very serious matter.

Sheena Iyengar

#4. But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

K. Eric Drexler

#5. I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.

Eddie Vedder

#6. He is a liar, a thief, a killer and a cannibal. And he is running for political office! Someone must stop him.

Charles Soule

#7. I was tired of her getting away with being so young.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

James C. Collins

#9. Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

George Herbert

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I am happy to crush my enemies underfoot, but I don't fight without reason. I don't want war without end.

Rick Riordan

#13. Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.

Robin Sharma

#14. Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Tupac Shakur

#15. Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Frank Miller

#16. We're being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they're not the folks below. Don't look in the streets, look in the corporate suites.

Jerry Brown

#17. I, in my brand new body,
which was not a woman's yet,
told the stars my questions
and thought God could really see
the heat and the painted light,
elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.

Anne Sexton

#18. You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

Flora Thompson

#19. 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

#20. Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#21. The future is a cold mistress. You can give all your life looking to her and trying to catch hold of her but she'll always dance away from your fingertips and laugh back at you from the distance. Them that say they know are liars and thieves.

Donal Ryan

#22. Only honest people take you at your word. Liars and thieves expect the same in return. Unfortunately for him, I didn't have a problem lying when it came to saving my own ass.

Donna Augustine

#23. I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves,
I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets.
That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.

Killer Mike

#24. What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

Carl Stokes

#25. It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

Raymond Carver

#26. A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Khalil Gibran

#27. In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#28. The investment world nevertheless has enough liars, cheaters, and thieves to keep Satan's check-in clerks frantically busy for decades to come.

Benjamin Graham

#29. Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor?
Kolabati looked into his eyes. He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

F. Paul Wilson

#30. I can pick a liar from a lineup of thieves and slanderers: the best of the best. I was hoping you would not resist the information we need but I must ask you now to answer my question truthfully and to choose your next words wisely. What does the key open?

Celia Mcmahon

#31. He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

Ted Hughes