Top 27 Thieves Stealing Quotes
#1. As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.
Bill Maher
#2. The country music stations plays soft but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off.
Bob Dylan
#3. When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.
Jean Genet
#4. You try moving things with nothing but willpower. It's about as easy as trying to lasso a bull with a licorice whip."
- from "Phantom's Veil
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. Like Jean Genet, Robert was a terrible thief. Genet was caught and imprisoned for stealing rare volumes of Proust and rolls of silk from a shirt maker. Aesthetic thieves. I imagined his sense of horror and triumph as bits of Blake swirled into the sewers of New York City.
Patti Smith
#7. 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
#8. Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.
J.K. Rowling
#9. If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
Frederick The Great
#10. 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
#11. A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.
Rembrandt
#12. Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
William Shakespeare
#13. 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
#14. Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.
And eaten their dinners.
Brandon Sanderson
#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. Develop flexibility and you will be firm; cultivate yielding and you will be strong.
Liezi
#17. 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
#18. Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.
Elizabeth Lesser
#19. Inflation had risen to the unimaginable figure of just over 100,000 percent by the end of 1947
and it was to go to 2,870,000 percent by the end of 1948 ...
Jung Chang
#20. Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.
Tom Allen
#21. If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
William, Saroyan
#23. Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.
Criss Jami
#24. Abby, come on. No guy on this planet would say no to their girl in the famous metal bikini.
Ashlan Thomas
#25. I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.
J. B. Smoove
#26. Beekeeper sing of your frustration
In this litigious breeze
Of accidental pollination
In this era without bees
We keep breeding desperation
In this era of thieves
Who keep stealing respiration
From the tenderest of trees
Andrew Bird
#27. We be decent thieves, not some politicals. We didn't try to attack the authorities. We was only stealing.
Andrzej Sapkowski
