Top 100 Quotes About Thieves
#1. And they're thieves to a man. If you shake a Rhonish hand, count your fingers afterward.
Mark Lawrence
#3. 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
#4. Welcome, thou kind deceiver!
Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,
Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,
Even steal us from ourselves.
John Dryden
#6. All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience.
Amit Abraham
#7. The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
Megan Whalen Turner
#8. Elsewhere I've written that Jesus came not only for those who skip morning meditations, but also for real sinners, thieves, adulterers, and terrorists, for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. I HAVE COME TO CALL NOT THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS. (MATT. 9:13)
Brennan Manning
#9. The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.
Alexei Navalny
#10. We photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.
Brassai
#11. Honey," Bessie's mamma used to say, "politicians and judges and coppers are money-grubbing thieves. They'll screw you, and rob you, and win elections for doing it, but there's no way around them. Smile and pay the sonsabitches off." The
Mary Doria Russell
#12. Do you think that the punishment for our sins was to die on the cross? If that was the case the two thieves could have paid the price. No, the punishment was to go to hell itself and to serve time in hell separated from God.
Frederick K. C. Price
#13. Dream thieves are those who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other people's dreams to work on. They suffer to do attempt what they can't do,
Israelmore Ayivor
#14. It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.
Mike Royko
#15. People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.
K. Martin Beckner
#16. A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims ... but accomplices
George Orwell
#17. we're thieves, we're rats. We know when to fight and when to run.
Victoria Aveyard
#18. Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.
Paul Bowles
#19. Ornon says, Ornon-who-always-has-something-to-say says, the Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. That's what makes us dangerous. -Eugenides
Megan Whalen Turner
#20. But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans. I
Patrick Rothfuss
#21. Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.
Robin Sharma
#22. We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
Jimmy Carter
#23. The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes
#24. You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
Andrew Jackson
#25. Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
Beeban Kidron
#26. No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone."
"If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much."
"Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live."
"You ain't got a life?"
"Thieves took it.
Cynthia Ozick
#27. Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.'
But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.
Clive Barker
#28. I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool.
Cheryl Cole
#30. Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Pablo Casals
#31. There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all
Zooey Deschanel
#32. We must be much more angry with theft than before, and yet much kinder to thieves than before. There
G.K. Chesterton
#33. I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?
Matt Dillon
#34. A man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat
E. E. Cummings
#35. Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.
Mario Puzo
#36. Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it.
John Grisham
#37. My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
Josh Hartnett
#38. No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
#39. Did you know that jewelry shop is a Cross Industries property? Gideon Cross has offered a quarter-million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of the thieves.
Sylvia Day
#40. A farmer slaughters his cattle because he must eat to survive, but he also protects the herd from thieves and predators. If you leave the pen, the wolves will find you, child.
Rachel Vincent
#41. Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G.K. Chesterton
#42. New York is the one place in the world that actively encourages rudeness, because that's the only way to get past the fake bag carriers, homeless people, newspaper thieves, Jesus freaks, and everyone else who wants something and isn't afraid to ask for it, repeatedly, at close range.
Gene Doucette
#43. There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
Peter O'Toole
#44. There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.'
Thomas More
#45. Lies! Lies, all of it! Murderous thieves - there's not room for their kind of civilized society!
John Ratcliffe
#46. In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega
a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#47. Agrabah is yours."
"No," Jasmine said, looking out at the sea of guild leaders, and the thieves, and the genie, and all the people of her city.
"Agrabah is ours.
Liz Braswell
#48. War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
Thomas Carlyle
#49. As in the wild there were predators and prey, so, too, did they exist among men in towns and cities. The hardworking peasants were the grazers, and the thieves were the starving coyotes.
Kel Kade
#50. Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? ... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#51. The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
Euripides
#52. Prison is for rapists, thieves, and murderers. If you lock someone up for smoking a plant that makes them happy, then you're the fucking criminal.
Joe Rogan
#53. As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.
Ben Kingsley
#54. Nina said something to Kuwei in Shu. He shrugged and looked away, lip jutting out slightly. Whether it was the recent death of his father or the fact that he'd found himself stuck in a cemetery with a band of thieves, the boy had become increasingly sullen.
Leigh Bardugo
#55. Besides, you could still find honor among thieves, if you knew the right ones.
Kit Rocha
#56. Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
Thomas Hood
#57. Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
Dick Armey
#58. In America the Struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word "Fascism" and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor.
Sinclair Lewis
#59. In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.
Petrus Borel
#60. Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
Laozi
#61. I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.
Clay Allison
#62. We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.
Bennett Madison
#63. One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?
Sterling W. Sill
#64. The language spoken by New Yorkers was changing almost daily. Phrases culled from British thieves' cant intermingled with German, Dutch, Yiddish, and other immigrant languages to form "flash," a
Lyndsay Faye
#65. It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves ...
William Landay
#66. It's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.
Erik Naggum
#67. She had fat arms, the type of arms that held sailors and soldiers and thieves. The kind of arms that held someone who was going away to jail for ten years. They were the arms of a woman who had eaten a hundred delicious cakes and pastries to get them this comfortable.
Heather O'Neill
#68. Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.
Charles Duhigg
#69. The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
Michael Nesmith
#71. People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn't belong to them.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#72. Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
Jeff Tweedy
#73. Come in, Martise." Silhara's voice was almost sibilant in the darkness as he tagged on her hand. "There are no soul eaters here."
No, she thought. Only heart thieves.
Grace Draven
#74. Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
William Shakespeare
#75. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us.
Herman Melville
#76. The plain fact is that humans, one and all, are merely thieves at heart.
Soseki Natsume
#77. The Waverley sisters hadn't been close as children, but they were as thick as thieves now, the way adult siblings often are, the moment they realize that family is actually a choice.
Sarah Addison Allen
#78. And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast
Jennifer McMahon
#79. Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
Laozi
#80. But in a time of war, knowledge made interesting friendships. Soon, the scholars and the thieves were . . . well, thick as thieves.
Ken Liu
#81. 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
#84. 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
#85. You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That's the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
Nathan Fillion
#86. There were thieves and hypocrites among us, to be sure, and true saints sprinkled here and there, but most were simply good, honest people who worshiped their Creator the best they knew how. We were a family.
Donna Chapman Gilbert
#87. Like thieves in the night, unwelcome thoughts can and do seek entrance to our minds. But we don't have to throw open the door, serve them tea and crumpets and tell them where the silverware is kept!
Jeffrey R. Holland
#88. GRIEF TAUGHT ME TO LIVE NUMB. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny particles from the ones left behind until you feel only half alive.
Kennedy Ryan
#89. Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, The great thieves are leading away the little thief.
Diogenes Of Sinope
#90. The gospels claim that on either side of Jesus hung men who in Greek are called lestai, a word often rendered into English as "thieves" but which actually means "bandits" and was the most common Roman designation for an insurrectionist or rebel.
Reza Aslan
#91. 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
#92. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.
Jeffrey Friedland
#94. In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.
Abel Ferrara
#95. Our first parents stole from the forbidden tree, and all of their progeny have been thieves ever since.
Anonymous
#96. Even if he could not see them, several lifetimes of listening to emperors, kings, princes, politicians and thieves had taught him that it was often not what people said, but what they did not say that revealed the truth.
Michael Scott
#97. The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.
Robert Fisk
#99. Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it. The thieves, the thieves, the filthy little thieves. Where are they with my Precious? Curse them! We hates them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#100. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
