Thieves Quotes

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

— George Herbert

Guilt is the thief of life.

— Anthony Hopkins

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

— William Shakespeare

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty attracts thieves quicker than gold.

— Shakespeare

“You can't trust even thieves these days.”

— John Speed

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

— John Milton

“Only thieves and children run.”

— Tracy Chevalier

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

— Flora Thompson

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Little thieves are hanged but great ones escape.

— Mrthrill

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves' changed my very idea of cinema.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.

— Jeanette Winterson

We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers?

— Wendy Kaminer

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

— William Congreve

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

— Charles Dickens

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

— Ramana Maharshi

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to…

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have…

— Vittorio De Sica

Bald guys have been playing the bad guy for a long time, whether it's pirates, thieves, murderers, or whatnot, so the deck…

— Anthony Carrigan

“No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us...”

— Joseph Conrad

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them…

— Anonymous

I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in…

— Samuel Beckett

The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach…

— Dwight L. Moody

The tall thief rushed down the stairs and grabbed her, swinging her around as he laughed. "And I've been thinkin' you forgot…

— Tamora Pierce

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th'…

— William Shakespeare

The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a…

— Ingmar Bergman

If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there…

— Saint John Chrysostom

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly,…

— Henry George

Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in…

— Hojo Soun

Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One…

— Anthony of Sourozh

When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe…

— Anonymous

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to…

— Simone Weil

The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing…

— Murray Rothbard

“You will make the boy Thief king?" he said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine…

— Megan Whalen Turner

I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“We, the French, the cleverest people on Earth, we, the exquisite, the charming, incomparable people, -listen, I mean it- we have a…

— Anonymous