Thieves Quotes
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As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.
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Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.
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There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
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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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We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.
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It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.
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In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.
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There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
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The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
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... we photographers are nothing but a pack of crooks, thieves and voyeurs. We are to be found everywhere we are not wanted; we betray secrets that were never entrusted to us; we spy shamelessly on things that are not our business; And end up the hoarders of a vast quantity of stolen goods.
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He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.
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It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.
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Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
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My job, I thought, is to demonstrate that one can remain healthy. Demonstrate it to myself, no one else. If I am exposed to lizards, I will fight the lizards. If I am exposed to ants, I will fight the ants. If I am exposed to thieves, I will fight the thieves. If I am exposed to myself, I will fight myself.
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Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty they can stand. They are afraid to find out how tough they are. Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich. Success is feminine and like a woman; if you cringe before her, she will override you. So the way to treat her is to show her the back of your hand. Then maybe she will do the crawling.
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Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.
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All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
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Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.
