Thieves Quotes
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Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
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In gold sandals dawn like a thief fell upon me.
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No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.
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If I am a thief, it's because of private property.
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The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate...
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Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.
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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
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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.
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I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
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I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.
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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.
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Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
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The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
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Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
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War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.
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Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
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There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.
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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.
