Thieves Quotes

• I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate use, and keep it, I thieve it from somebody else. ... Nature produces enough for our wants from day to day, and if only every-body took enough for himself and nothing more, there would be no pauperism in this world, there would be no man dying of starvation in this world. But so long as we have got this inequality, so long we are thieving.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Wants
  • Thieves
  • Starvation

• He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

  

  William Congreve
  • Firsts
  • Cry
  • Stolen

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Greed
  • Treasure
  • Thieves

• We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

  

  Bennett Madison
  • Thieves
  • Borrowers
  • Renters

• There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

  

  Geoffrey Gray
  • Culture
  • Obsession
  • Thieves

• The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

  

  Murray Rothbard
  • Individual
  • Immoral
  • Grasping

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Thieves

• In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

  

  Burt Prelutsky
  • Choices
  • California
  • Prison

• There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • May
  • Honor
  • Politician

• Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time
  • Fools
  • Thieves

• ... 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.

  

  Brassaï
  • Business
  • Secrets
  • Goods

• It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

  

  William Bolitho
  • Pirate
  • Mere
  • Booty

• 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.

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Believe
  • Project
  • Experienced

• 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.

  

  John Calvin
  • Scripture
  • Voices
  • Pastor

• 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.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Becoming
  • Intention
  • Liars

• Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves.

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Book
  • Thieves

• 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.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Job
  • Fight
  • Healthy

• 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.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Death
  • Afraid
  • Writer

• All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

  

  Nina Bawden
  • Writers
  • Trade
  • Thieves

• Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Crew
  • Pope
  • Thieves

• Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

  

  Bob Hastings
  • Fear
  • Regret
  • Twin

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