Thieves Quotes

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Jeanette Winterson

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

— George Herbert

Beauty attracts thieves quicker than gold.

— Shakespeare

Comparison is the thief of all joy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

— Jhoon Goo Rhee

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

— John McCarthy

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

— John Milton

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

— Suhasini Maniratnam

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

— Wendy Kaminer

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

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

— Peter O'Toole

The sweets of pillage can be known To no one but the thief, Compassion for integrity Is his divinest grief.

— Emily Dickinson

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

— Margaret Fell

All my cousins steal things. They're just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them…

— Al Lewis

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The…

— Ogden Nash

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

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

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

— Anjem Choudary

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

— Ben Hecht

“You said, ‘I’m going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.’ I’ve hidden those words…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper,…

— Peter S. Beagle

Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

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

— Simone Weil

“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

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

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

But God's love is big enough to touch any life, to make light out of any darkness. Jesus came that we might…

— Heidi Baker