Thieves Quotes · Page 11

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

— Jimmy Breslin

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

— Cormac McCarthy

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

— Edward Young

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

— Thomas Jefferson

I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

— Oscar Wilde

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

— Emmanuel Jal

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

— William Penn

Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls…

— Nicholas Sparks

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

— Khalil

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin…

— Hunter S. Thompson

[Donald Trump] is a true republican: he is hypocritical and two-faced, he's a liar, a cheat, and a thief and the more…

— Tommy Chong

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

— Natalie Clifford Barney

“Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

— George Carlin

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that…

— William Shakespeare

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four…

— Paul O'Grady

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth…

— James Russell Lowell

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own…

— Alice Walker

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means…

— Thomas Moore

The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand…

— Megan Whalen Turner

My dowry is thirty-five. A year.” His brows climbed. “You’re joking.” “I would never joke about money with a notorious thief. Just…

— Shana Abe

I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit…

— Wendell Pierce

Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves…

— Stewart Brand

We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the…

— William James

The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make…

— Arthur Rimbaud

This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence…

— Stokely Carmichael

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government…

— Robert Higgs

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave…

— Isabel Allende

Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I suggest that we are thieves in a way. If I take anything that I do not need for my own immediate…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

— James Bovard

I once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. Only perfect intentions.

— Morgan Freeman

Finally thieves lovely ladies are Dannie and Katie

— Marshall Lee

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

— Abel Ferrara

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

— Ben Kingsley

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

— Aesop

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

— Martial

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

— James Belushi