Thieves Quotes · Page 8

The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

— George Herbert

Were your parents thieves? Because they stole the stars and put them in your eyes.

— Anonymous

“Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos.”

— Rick Riordan

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

— John McCarthy

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

— Helen Hayes

A band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world

— Taylor Swift

We cannot find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer.

— Michael Horton

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

— William Shakespeare

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

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do…

— Samuel Fuller

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

— Emily Dickinson

“In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the…

— Petrus Borel

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that…

— Ambrose Bierce

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves. Regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

— Fulton Oursler

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

— Warren W. Wiersbe

I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons.' Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll…

— Michael Ian Black

Men are built, not born… Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of…

— John B. Watson

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In…

— Federico Fellini

It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to…

— Derek R. Audette

The resurrection is the keystone of the arch on which our faith is supported. If Christ has not risen, we must impeach…

— Dwight L. Moody

The tall thief rushed down the stairs and grabbed her, swinging her around as he laughed. "And I've been thinkin' you forgot…

— Tamora Pierce

I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in…

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Anonymous

Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that…

— Billy Collins

Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now…

— Markus Zusak

“The boldest of the three (thieves) moved suddenly, grabbed Angua and pulled her upright. "We walk out of here unharmed or the…

— Terry Pratchett

Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply…

— Charles Spurgeon

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds…

— Charles Spurgeon

There you are!” he shouted at them. “Father has half the castle turned out looking for you.” “Us?” Hadrian asked. “Yes.” Fanen…

— Michael J. Sullivan

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward…

— Anonymous

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Abel Ferrara

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

— Ben Kingsley

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

— Aesop

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

— Martial

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

— James Belushi

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Idries Shah

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

— Charles Portis