Best 125 quotes in «thieves quotes» category

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

A selfish man is a thief.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

I creep like a thief, no doubt the man's swift, I'm more magnificent than Lee Van Cleef

I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

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 under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

in my garden I pick a musk melon feeling like a thief

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.

I prefer a thief to a Congressman. A thief will take your money and be on his way, but a Congressman will stand there and bore you with the reasons why he took it.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.

It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

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 liar.

it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

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 of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

lightning thief was good but the sea of monsters is better and has more action!

My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

Sala-manda-stron, look out here we come, A thief a warrior and a mole. Though the quest may take its toll, We'll march until we reach our goal.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

The exploitation and superficiality of mainstream America is the object not of [Bob] Dylan's hipster scorn, but of an apocalyptic parable of holy fools and righteous thieves - the kind of imagery that Dylan's later work would explore more fully.

Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.