Quote by Lao Tzu

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

— Nina Bawden

“If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers.”

— Lao Tzu

“The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

— Ben Dolnick

“They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care…

— Jonathan Swift

“As far as bad ideas went, this stole the prize.”

— Julia Quinn

“The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it’s not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Everybody steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot myself. But I know how to steal”

— Thomas Edison

“Wage workers are unconsciously trading their limited lifetime for abundant pieces of paper that are designed to steal their lifetime”

— Daniella Liberati

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

— Paul Bowles

“When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you…

— Israelmore Ayivor

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

— Samuel Johnson