Thief Quotes

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. (Laozi)
Procrastination is the thief of time. View quote
Edward Young
Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves. View quote
Karl Kraus
Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise. View quote
William Penn
Friends are thieves of time. View quote
Francis Bacon
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. View quote
Aesop
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. View quote
Alexei Navalny
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Punctuality is the thief of time. View quote
Oscar Wilde
War makes thieves and peace hangs them. (George Herbert)
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. View quote
William Blake
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. View quote
Denis Diderot
If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly. View quote
Mario Cuomo
Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity. View quote
Jim Rohn
The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
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
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. View quote
Robert Browning
Comparison is the thief of joy. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back. View quote
Tupac Shakur