... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on…

I hate to lend a book I love…it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me…

— Anonymous

“It's a gift. Never lend a book.”

— Ronald D. Moore

“Burn the book. It serves you once. Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime. Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.”

— Kowtham Kumar K

If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!

— Agatha Christie

Never lend a book to someone who don't know how to read, never give your heart to someone that don't know how to love.

— Nikhil Saluja

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by…

— Alberto Manguel

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as…

— Alberto Manguel

The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage…

— Xi Jinping

“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

— Will Advise

The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

“It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.”

— Doug Dorst

“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre…

— John Ruskin

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your…

— Lord Byron

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is…

— Jerry Rubin

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

— Anonymous