Steal Quotes

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Most people still steal music. View quote
Steve Ballmer
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. View quote
Anatole France
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace. View quote
Tacitus
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director. View quote
David Mamet
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. (Adlai Stevenson II)
The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun. View quote
Mario Puzo
We don't have to love it. We just have to steal it. View quote
Gordon Korman
God creates, I do not create.
I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it –
from what I see, from what the dancers can do,
from what others do... View quote
George Balanchine
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. View quote
Tony Bennett
And the night shall be filled with music and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me dye; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lye. View quote
Alexander Pope
If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught. View quote
Mobutu Sésé Seko
Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. View quote
Woody Allen
My grandchildren are growing up and they could not understand why the Marcoses are still being crucified although we keep on telling them that we did not steal from the Filipino people. (Imelda Marcos)
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands. View quote
Maynard James Keenan
Steal to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. View quote
T. S. Eliot
I asked a thief to steal me a peach He turned up his eyes. I asked a lithe lady to lie her down Holy and meek, she cries. As soon as I went An angel came. He winked at the thief And smiled at the dame And without one word spoke Had a peach from the tree, And twixt earnest and joke Enjoyed the lady. View quote
William Blake