Thieves Quotes · Page 10

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious,…

— Peter Abelard

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of…

— Bob Dylan

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived…

— John Wesley

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

— Markus Zusak

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

— Nina Bawden

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed…

— Howard Zinn

I asked a thief to steal me a peach: He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her…

— William Blake

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ...…

— Wilkie Collins

“The gangs of arrogant thieves that can rob you of your success are your own doubts, fears and low self-image. Get them…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Congress is where the liars and thieves meet.

— Vikrant Parsai

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

— Jean Cocteau

Do you think that the punishment for our sins was to die on the cross? If that was the case the two…

— Frederick K. C. Price

Punctuality is the thief of adventure.

— Jan Struther

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

— William Shakespeare

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

— Satyajit Ray

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

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole…

— Aesop

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

— Ingmar Bergman

My sense, and I'm sort of guessing, is that the journalists were being classified by the government as common criminals, and the…

— Adam Braver

Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from…

— Dante Alighieri

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

— Geoffrey Gray

“The only way crime will increase and get out of hand it is because those who are supposed to stop it are…

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is…

— Khalil Gibran

How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take…

— Audrey Niffenegger