Larceny Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
— Paul Gallico
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About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.
— Arthur Baer
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The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized…
— Calvin Coolidge
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A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement…
— Finley Peter Dunne
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The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.
— Adam Schiff
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We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of…
— Roger Caras
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Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York…
— Richard Ney
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What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live…
— Karl Hess
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[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display…
— Bob Black
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It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries...…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.
— Gaylord Perry
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There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always…
— Will Rogers
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.
— James M. Cain
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I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death,…
— Johnny Cash
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The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed…
— John T. Flynn
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People love gentle larceny.
— Dan Aykroyd
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If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of…
— Peter Singer
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I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes.
— James Garner
Who Wrote These Larceny Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Larceny Quotes as follows: