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- All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of…
- The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above…
- He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would…
- Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether…
- Ornon said, "I have seen him jump across atriums four stories above the ground, a distance that would make your blood freeze, and I heard…
- She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus. There is the…
- Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost…
- A thief never makes a noise by accident.
- You didn't know I could do that, did you?" he asked, conversationally. "I did not, Your Majesty," Teleus gasped. "My grandfather killed a man that…
- You will make the boy Thief king?" he [Nahuseresh] said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for…
- Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar,…
- As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?
- The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
- Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his…
More Thieves Quotes
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that… — Ambrose Bierce
- Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest… — William Blake
- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
- The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal. — Jimmy Breslin
- Hunger makes a thief of any man. — Pearl S. Buck
- What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am… — Sitting Bull
- War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. — Thomas Carlyle
- Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. — Pablo Casals
- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact… — John Cassian