Best 125 quotes in «thieves quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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'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.

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

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

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

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

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

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

The one who praises you is a thief. The one who criticizes you is your true friend.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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.

There's thieves among us Painting the walls All kinds of lies , and lies I never told it all

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.

The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

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

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief’s bugle, but where to blow it.

The threat [of the U.S. bills SOPA and PIPA] is the inversion of the burden of proof, where we suddenly are all treated like thieves at every moment we're given the freedom to create, to produce or to share.

Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.