Thief Quotes · Page 12

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.

— Ovid

And happiness will come like a thief in the night and steal all the pain away

— Ash&Shadow

They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

— Cormac McCarthy

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

— Billy Graham

I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift, I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

— Diamond D

I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.

— Arthur Darvill

Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

— V. E. Schwab

“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and…

— Sara Gruen

“It was all my fault,” Amy said. “If I hadn’t fallen asleep, we would have known for certain who the thief was.…

— Paul Moxham

In 'Kid A' and 'Amnesiac,' Mr. Yorke's lyrics were often unfathomable, moaned and mumbled and forced beneath the surface of the music.…

— David Means

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon…

— William Shakespeare

There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people. When you drop a newspaper over a sign and…

— George Carlin

“What cannot be preserved when fortune takes Patience her injury a mock'ry makes. The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.…

— William Shakespeare

“Cash. Pay cash, Theodore. It's safest, unless you keep your wallet where someone can pick your pocket." "I'm going to feel someone…

— Jewel E. Ann

“The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things.…

— Lorrie Moore

“Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!”

— Steve Maraboli

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go…

— Horace

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

— Holly Black

John 10:10: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have…

— Jesus

“[S]he stepped out into the yard, like a thief in reverse: breaking and exiting. Stealing herself.”

— Sarah Cross

It's hard to breath nights days are thief like. The beast roam the streets the police is Greeklike.

— Common

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

— Al Stewart

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!

— Anonymous

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

— Rumi

Everything is new about 'Siruthai.' This is the first time I'm playing a dual role - a thief and a police officer!

— Karthi

“I’m a businessman,” he’d told her. “No more, no less.” “You’re a thief, Kaz.” “Isn’t that what I just said?”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.”

— James Carlos Blake

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

— John Andreas Widtsoe

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]

— George Herbert

“Contrary to popular belief, there is honor amongst thieves. It just comes in a monetary form.”

— Steve McHugh

“Well, that explained it, then. Secret demon hunter and thief. Man, did I know how to pick 'em.”

— Rachel Hawkins

“There’s always a secret door,” I said. “That’s why you always need a thief in your party.”

— Ben Aaronovitch

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

— Michael Peterson

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

— Seungsahn

“Seeing a piece of notepaper next to the phone, Kozenczak picked it up. It had Phil Torf’s name on it. Kozenczak pocketed…

— Terry Sullivan

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.

— George Allen

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

— Maya Angelou

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.

— Terry Pratchett