Thieves Quotes · Page 8

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

— Fulton Oursler

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

— Aristophanes

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

— Stephen Kellogg

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

— Bob Hastings

For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?

— Ally Carter

I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

— Jose Marti

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

— Whoopi Goldberg

When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.

— Vanessa Carlton

I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

— Larry David

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

— John Milton

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of…

— Ernestine Rose

“People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.”

— K. Martin Beckner

“These meetings, they're like thieves—they follow you around, wait until you're not looking, and pounce.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

— Michael Nesmith

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

— Henry George

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

A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.” If he is wise he has…

— Ben Hecht

My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see…

— Marita Golden

One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he…

— Ambrose Bierce

I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe…

— Anjem Choudary

“You see," said Colon, "thieves are organized here. I mean, it's official . They're allowed a certain amount of thieving. Not that…

— Terry Pratchett

Braveheart is pure Australian shiteWilliam Wallace was a spy, a thief, a blackmailer - a c**t basically. And people are swallowing it.…

— Billy Connolly

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring. The grace of God…

— Mike Yaconelli

“To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of…

— Petrus Borel

To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.…

— Ronald Rolheiser

And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got…

— Scott Lynch

And I can promise you something, because it was a thing I saw many years later - a vision in the book…

— Markus Zusak

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

— Rumi

I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.

— Benigno Aquino III

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

— Anonymous

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief...

— Bob Dylan

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand?

— Jethro Tull

lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

— Rick Riordan

in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief

— Yosa Buson

“This isn't a job for trained soldiers and spies. It's a job for thugs and thieves.”

— Leigh Bardugo