Robber Quotes
66 quotes by 61 authors
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under…
— C.S. Lewis
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While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from…
— James Joyce
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We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real…
— Victor Hugo
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Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who…
— Jodi Picoult
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Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than…
— James Kahn
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Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.
— Brian Jacques
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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be…
— Naomi Klein
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Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity on the checkout…
— Dave Barry
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Toys "R" Us. Zack put on a wool cap and sunglasses. "You look like a bank robber," I observed. "No toy is safe.
— Joan Bauer
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Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks.…
— Frances Hardinge
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It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin
— Edgar Allan Poe
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So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.
— Scott Lynch
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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
— Victor Hugo
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O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message to future US…
— Alex Jones
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My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied…
— David Mamet
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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.
— Indian Proverb
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A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account.
— Bill Bryson
Who Wrote These Robber Quotes
61 authors contributed a total of 66 Robber Quotes, led by these top contributors: