Top 100 The Thief Quotes
#1. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde
#4. Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#5. Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.
Barton Gellman
#7. Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Jim Rohn
#8. I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'
Billy Graham
#9. They're going to leave me. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry prickly 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 are halfway to Methana. Where ever Methana might be.
Megan Whalen Turner
#10. Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it ... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.
E.B. White
#11. There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief ...
Bob Dylan
#12. Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene
Edward Young
#13. It slowly dawned on the thief that a duel was but moments away.
Steven Erikson
#14. My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!
Charles Dickens
#15. Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all ... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal ... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.
Megan Whalen Turner
#16. As long as you honour material things, direct your anger at yourself rather than the thief or adulterer.
Epictetus
#17. The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
Juvenal
#18. The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
William Shakespeare
#19. He wondered how the Attolians thought Eugenides had managed to become king if he was the idiot they assumed him to be. Perhaps because they had never seen him as the Thief, with his head thrown back and a glint in his eye that made the hair on the back of a man's neck rise up.
Megan Whalen Turner
#20. The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.
Richard Paul Evans
#21. Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.
Rumi
#23. In that moment, Xcor thought of each of his fighters. Zypher, the sexual conqueror. Balthazar, the thief. Syphon, the assassin. And the other one who had no name, and too many sins to count. So he was referred to as Syn.
J.R. Ward
#24. Alric looked up at the thief with a scowl. "I just want to say for the record that as far as royal protectors go, you're not very good."
"It's my first day," Royce replied dryly.
"And already I'm trapped in a timeless prison. I shudder to think what might have happened if you had a whole week.
Michael J. Sullivan
#25. The Thief who has no opportunity to steal, thinks he is an Honest man.
Anupam Kher
#27. What is needed is the imagination of the poet and the reasoning power of the mathematician. The thief of "The Purloined Letter" successfully hides the letter from the police because he is both a poet and a mathematician. Dupin is able to find it because he too meets both conditions.
Vincent Buranelli
#28. Despite the walls she surrounded herself with, the thief had somehow let her own heart get stolen.
C.L.Stone
#29. We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
Ovid
#30. The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.
Thorstein Veblen
#31. Tis gold Which buys admittance
oft it doth
yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.
William Shakespeare
#32. According to the disease theory of delinquency, the arsonist has 'pyromania,' the thief 'kleptomania,' and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a 'sex-addict.
Ilana Mercer
#33. Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.
Rod Parsley
#34. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while.
Neil Gaiman
#35. The thief-catcher looked as if he would rather clean the cages with his bare hands. The lions' cages, with the lions inside.
Robert Jordan
#36. I would advise you to buy it, because if you read too long without handing over money you will find yourself the object of the Thief's Curse
J.K. Rowling
#37. We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.
Francine Rivers
#39. Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
Lord Chesterfield
#41. Kennedy: You mean it's not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life's red ink certainly outweighed the black. Kennedy:
Peter Kreeft
#42. More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#43. Every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner.
Teju Cole
#44. But, you're just a girl!" Ben said, his eyes widening with suprise and indignation.
The green eyes glanced downwards and before he could move, Ben felt a sharp point pricking at his throat.
"No, not just a girl..." the thief answered softly, "a girl with a knife!
Richard Denning
#45. If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
Ramana Maharshi
#48. He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#49. So why the pelican? Said Haskoll.
The thief was giving Haskoll a look that said, Man, why NOT the pelican?
Adam Rex
#50. The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.
Terry Pratchett
#51. The thief sighs. 'Perhaps. After that, she started talking about this ancient legend they have, about a creature called the Sleeper with a billion hit points, and after it was finally killed by a coalition of a thousand guilds, it dropped a small rusty dagger.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#52. Tristran and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse,
Neil Gaiman
#53. The hole calls the thiefe.
[The hole calls the thief.]
George Herbert
#54. We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#56. Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did
Henny Youngman
#57. When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.
[When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
George Herbert
#58. The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.
Emily Dickinson
#59. The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.
Thomas Guthrie
#60. Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Junaid said: 'I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life.
Idries Shah
#61. How can you see evil until there is evil in you? How can you see the thief, unless he is there, sitting in the heart of your heart? How can you see the murderer until you are yourself the murderer? Be good, and evil will vanish for you.
Swami Vivekananda
#62. Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.
Caitlin Thomas
#63. There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.
Matthew Henry
#64. A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling "Thief."
If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
Nor has the fool been enriched.
The thief flatters us by stealing.
We flatter him by complaining.
Ben Hecht
#65. They think they can keep me out, but it does not matter how many locks they hang at the entrance. There is always another door.
- The Thief Who Stole the Stars, by Tristan Chirsley
Marie Lu
#66. 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
#67. Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?
Jim Rohn
#68. 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
#69. [On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.
Whoopi Goldberg
#70. The box didn't appear to be hampered in any way by the ornamental rug draped roguishly over it, nor by the thief hanging by one arm from the lid. It was, in a very real sense, a dead weight. Further along the lid were the remains of two fingers, owner unknown.
Terry Pratchett
#71. I turned to Thalia. 'I'll hold the flower while you beat up the thief?'
She sighed. 'Fine. Let's go catch this jerk.
Rick Riordan
#72. To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
Ramana Maharshi
#74. From the seed of the thief
The Dragon will rise,
the gluttonous one,
feeding on the blood of babes,
Drinking the tears of mothers.
- Song of Venda
Mary E. Pearson
#75. The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it,
Maya Angelou
#76. Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
Elias Hicks
#81. The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#82. Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
Karl Kraus
#83. 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
#84. Shakespeare said, 'the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.
Amy Harmon
#85. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Charles Dickens
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#100. to do with thieves. I don't know, the boy said. They killed the thief
Natalia Smirnova
