Thief Quotes

399 Thief quotes by 297 unique authors

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of… — Simone Weil
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a… — Raymond Carver
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief. — John Fante
I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir… — Vittorio De Sica
The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) -… — Thomas Guthrie
Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king… — Sara Teasdale
You know, people say that today. "I am a saved sinner." That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you… — Leonard Ravenhill
What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening,… — Donna Woolfolk Cross
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them… — H. L. Richardson
If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night — Eamon de Valera
It's [a miscarriage] all very thief-in-the-night. No one really knows what to say. You go into the emergency room, you think you're going to be… — Tori Amos
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at… — John B. Watson
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chiefâ€™s bugle, but where to blow it. — Maya Angelou
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief. — Jackson Pollock
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's… — Thomas More
Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories. — Nicholas Sparks
When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated… — Charles Spurgeon
The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend. — Seungsahn
Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief. — Christopher Pike
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief. — Cat Stevens

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