Top 100 Steal Quotes
#1. A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.
Mark Twain
#2. You believe stealing is wrong, but if your family was starving and could not afford bread, wouldn't you say it's okay to steal a loaf to feed them?
A.J. Darkholme
#3. Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
James Jeffrey Roche
#4. You try to steal either of our souls and I will shred you like junk mail.
Kristen Painter
#5. PORTEOUS: Do you mean to say you were going to steal my car.
TEDDIE: Not exactly. I was only going to bolshevise it, so to speak.
W. Somerset Maugham
#6. The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.
Scott Peters
#7. Don't steal nobody's cattle or their women. Treat your horse like your best friend, because sometimes that's all you got. Most important, trust and believe in your guys and always have their back when they need you.
G. Neri
#8. We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
Andy Partridge
#9. Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.
Jeanette Winterson
#10. Let's walk down the road that has no end
Steal away where only angels tread
Heaven or hell or somewhere in between
Cross your heart to take me when you leave
Don't go
Please don't go
Don't go without me
The Civil Wars
#11. The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody's nose
Aldo Leopold
#12. My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they'll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he'll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
Jesse Ventura
#13. Your afraid the sly little things will steal your heart if the find out you have one
- Natalie Savage Carlson " The Family Under The Bridge
Natalie Savage Carlson
#14. For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
Akshay Kumar
#15. I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
David Levithan
#16. Besides, tourists go out there all the time. The volcano can't be that dangerous."
"I'm guessing the tourists aren't trying to steal a forbidden object out from under the noses of evil witches."
"Not unless they've paid for the deluxe package".
Andrea Cremer
#17. When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.
Elizabeth McCracken
#18. RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW
BEWARE OF DOG
ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES
DO NOT STEAL QUEENS
A GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINS
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATION
EVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATER
WHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP
Catherynne M Valente
#19. There are men on that Commission who would steal the brakes off a mountain railway just before they went down in it...It's a struggle with suicidal imbeciles.
The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Location 59)
H.G.Wells
#20. You know, I've been around the world, but still can't find another girl that can steal your shine.
Nina Ardianti
#21. You needn't steal from me. I will give you everything, and never miss it.
Andrea Jones
#22. Does that mean you're a thief too?'
'Yep.'
'What did you steal?'
For a moment, she thought he wasn't going to answer. Then he said, 'Myself.
Lian Tanner
#23. You cannot earn $10 million. Nobody earns millions. You can rob, you can steal, or you can make $10 million in an IPO, but never earn so much. So just forget all this saving and consulting bullshit.
Ravindra Shukla
#24. So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
Homer
#25. They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.
Terry Pratchett
#26. It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is undependable at best, and folks in one river system are always trying to steal water from another.
Faith A. Colburn
#27. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
Walter Scott
#28. Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
William Jennings Bryan
#29. There's a part of you, Gemma, that's so fucking sweet, and I want to steal that part of you, even though I know I shouldn't.
Ella Frank
#30. To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy!
Bono
#31. An alluring woman
need not bat an eyelash
to hit a homer
and steal a man's heart.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#32. Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.
Stephen King
#33. We were all put on this earth to be happy and we all deserve to be. Don't let anyone or anything steal your happiness in life!
Timothy Pina
#34. Have you really stolen a car?" "I have really stolen many cars before." "Could you steal my car?" "Your midrange car with no theft protection devices that you keep unlocked in your garage that is also unlocked?" Marcos snorted in disbelief. "Yes, I could steal it.
Kele Moon
#35. When we let ourselves write from love, when we let ourselves steal minutes as gifts to ourselves, our lives become sweeter, our temperaments become sweeter.
Julia Cameron
#36. There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind - the trifling, jesting buffoon - but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes.
Albion W. Tourgee
#37. Evie replied with an eye-roll. "Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I'm gone?"
"The only thing I'm trying to steal is your heart, doll." Sam smirked.
"You're not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.
Libba Bray
#38. Take your finger out of your nose, Miss Steal.
Fanny Merkin
#39. We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back
most of them
and the rich take from us because they could wipe us out in a day.
Peter S. Beagle
#40. I will not deny that Bael's exploit inspired mine own ... but I did not steal either of your sisters that I recall. Bael wrote his own songs, and lived them. I only sing the songs that better men have made.
George R R Martin
#41. Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
Ben Jonson
#42. He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.
Jack Newfield
#43. So in order to cope, I pick locks, shoplift, pick pockets, mug people, panhandle, break and enter, steal cars, lie, fold, spindle, and mutilate. You name it, I've done it
Audrey Niffenegger
#44. In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.
Thomas C. Foster
#45. Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
Walter Isaacson
#46. Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children.
Fred Small
#47. I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. Salutary reminder of the quality of mind that Chaos can steal. The greatest of us, the brightest, the most urbane and learned, can fall prey.
Anonymous
#49. I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
Mal Peet
#50. You can steal someone's Art,
But not their Heart.
You can immitate them,
But you can never be like them.
You can hurt them,
But you cannot kill their will to love again.
You can leave,
But your space will always be filled by someone better than you.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#51. Crime is rampant. We even steal away from responsibility.
Andre Brie
#52. People who lie, cheat and steal in relationships are communicating that they have such an inferior view of themselves that they are not worthy of another's trust.
Chip R. Bell
#54. Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its members to experiment with drugs, to engage in murderous gang fights, to steal autos, and to violate the seventh commandment.
Billy Graham
#55. A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .
Robert Bringhurst
#56. In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
Anatole France
#57. There are heartaches in life, painful things that happen and disappointments that steal away dreams.
Jennifer St. Giles
#58. Megan loves orgasms so much, she would not hesitate to steal yours.
Roy Station
#59. Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
Julian Barnes
#61. If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz
#62. Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
David Ogilvy
#64. The only known technique to an imitator is to steal and rephrase, then with a mischievous smile, he said, "i did it", without any confidence and prove.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#65. I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.
J. B. Smoove
#66. My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.
Michael Caine
#67. I could look in this man's eyes all day. Could get lost in them, move for them, lie, steal, die for them.
Alessandra Torre
#69. 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
#70. Good writers borrow. The best writers steal.
Aaron Sorkin
#71. We are, all of us, always only one breath or softening of our thought away from an invasion of divine wonder and fresh miracles. Soul waits for any small opening of our hearts to steal into everyday life.
Jacob Nordby
#72. The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal,
Banksy
#73. A fourteen year old to steal my virginity on the moor and rape me till I come.
Sarah Kane
#74. My favorite thing to steal is a kiss. You can get arrested for it but they can't force you to give it back.
Daniel Tosh
#75. I wanted to. I wanted to get off the planet and back into space and not have to watch him die. Not have to watch him lose control of his body piece by piece.
And I wanted to stay here and be with him and steal every moment left that he had breath in his body.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#76. I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work here in the factory."
Were you one of those despicable spies who every day tried to steal my life's work and sell it to those paraseeded cop cat, candy making cads?"
No sir!"
Then wonderful, welcome back!
Johnny Depp
#77. I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.
George Tillman Jr.
#78. My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people.
Imelda Marcos
#79. When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.
Kieran Culkin
#80. Is my victory real, does the winner adorned with a laurel wreath ask this question? Do I deserve victory or did I steal it from someone who is more worthy of victory?
Dejan Stojanovic
#81. But what if I take a chance and everything crumbles? What if I trust someone again and they steal something away from me. I don't really have that much left until I'm hollow.
Jessica Sorensen
#82. Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.
David Gemmell
#83. I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.
Alan Sugar
#84. It's amazing [ ... ] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.
Jill Paton Walsh
#85. My mom on Pitbull: 'I'm glad he's a star, b/c if he wasn't and I just saw him on the street I'd think he was going to steal from me.'
Sasheer Zamata
#86. You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander Hamilton
#87. Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse
Steve Aylett
#88. I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.
A. S. W. Rosenbach
#89. When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.
Bee Wilson
#90. Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.
John Lancaster Spalding
#91. If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.
Wu Guanzhong
#92. Kaz leaned back. "What's the easiest way to steal a man's wallet?"
"Knife to the throat?" asked Inej.
"Gun to the back?" said Jesper.
"Poison in his cup?" suggested Nina.
"You're all horrible," said Matthias.
Leigh Bardugo
#93. About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
#95. Call them robbers and cutthroats
were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill their bellies? Something was out of joint in a world that drove these men to steal.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#96. I did steal socks, but I got caught ... don't shoplift, anyone - don't do it! You're just gonna get caught.
Sara Shepard
#97. (Imitating a Belarus citizen commenting on their national flag) Stupid National Anthem ... Look at this flag; Two bears fighting over a pineapple. What kind of message does that send to the world? Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
Bill Bailey
#98. A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
Mario Puzo
#99. To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus
#100. If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.
Craig Groeschel
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