Thieves Quotes · Page 9

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

— Francis Quarles

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

— Criss Jami

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

— Mitch Albom

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

— Markus Zusak

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

— Charles Portis

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

— William Shakespeare

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

— Idries Shah

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

— James Belushi

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

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

— Lord Chesterfield

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to…

— Matt Dillon

Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Whoopi Goldberg

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but…

— Bob Dylan

Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every…

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Alice Walker

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

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

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

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

“By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth…

— Henry David Thoreau

Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of…

— Clive Barker

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

— Markus Zusak

You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a…

— Cecelia Ahern

The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of…

— Walter E. Williams

You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there…

— Gary Gygax

You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed…

— Megan Whalen Turner

I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for…

— Anonymous

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

— Dante Alighieri

“In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of…

— Tod Wodicka

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

— Martial

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

— Abel Ferrara

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

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Edward Young