Thief Quotes

• A thief believes everybody steals.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Everybody
  • Thief
  • Steals

• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Being
  • Principle

• I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

  

  Carl Palmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • Stuff
  • Trick
  • Stolen

• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Sins
  • Welfare

• 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
  • Opportunities
  • Scenes
  • Steal

• Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Child
  • Valley
  • Thief

• We hope that even a thief has a heart.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Heart
  • Has
  • To Hope

• What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Goods
  • Thief

• Punctuality is the thief of time.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Thief
  • Punctuality

• Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thief
  • Rascal

• The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Source
  • Chief
  • Thief

• I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down: Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame- And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And 'twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady.

  

  William Blake
  • Steal
  • Thief
  • Peach

• If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Progress
  • Turn
  • Murderer

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

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Liar
  • Thief
  • George Bush

• Procrastination is still the thief of time.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Time
  • Procrastination
  • Thief

• Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Time
  • Person
  • Particulars

• 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
  • Money
  • Distress
  • Thief

• What a deformed thief this fashion is.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fashion
  • Thief
  • Deformed

• Regaining the title from the thief who stole it from me.

  

  Crixus
  • Title
  • Stole
  • Regaining

• “A long time ago a boy climbed a beanstalk, and he came down a thief. Now a thief is climbing a beanstalk. And who knows what will come down?”

  

  P.W. Catanese
  • Boy
  • Thief
  • Beanstalk

• Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Cancer
  • Destroy
  • Guilt

• We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • History
  • Procrastination

• You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Liar
  • Manners
  • Thief

• Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • God
  • Poor
  • Abundance

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