Thieves Quotes

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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel,"… — Saint John Chrysostom
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm… — Andrea Dworkin
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and… — Alexander Lebed
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a… — Guy de Maupassant
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. — Nina Bawden
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade. — Paul Bowles
I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and… — Clay Allison
Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and… — Laozi
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with… — Samuel Johnson
What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us. — Robert Breault
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing. — Katherine Anne Porter
A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street... — Jack Kerouac
Hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary a liar is after my reality. — Curtis Jackson
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)… — Thomas Jefferson
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it… — Thomas Paine
It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be… — Elwyn Brooks White
What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells? — Mahatma Gandhi
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was… — Jimmy Carter

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