Top Thieves Quotes Collection

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Image of Murray Rothbard
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.
- Murray Rothbard
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Image of Bennett Madison
We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.
- Bennett Madison
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Image of Man Ray
If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.
- Man Ray
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Image of L. Frank Baum
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
- L. Frank Baum
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Image of Rashi
A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.
- Rashi
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Image of Daniel Defoe
Pleasure is a thief to business.
- Daniel Defoe
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Image of Hesiod
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
- Hesiod
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Image of Callimachus
Set a thief to catch a thief.
- Callimachus
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Image of Larry David
I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.
- Larry David
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Image of Caroline Manzo
Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.
- Caroline Manzo
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Image of Facundo Cabral
If I am a thief, it's because of private property.
- Facundo Cabral
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Image of Khalil
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
- Khalil
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Image of Geoffrey Gray
There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.
- Geoffrey Gray
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Image of John Gunther
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
- John Gunther
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Image of Ann-Marie MacDonald
The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.
- Ann-Marie MacDonald
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Image of Megan Whalen Turner
A thief never makes a noise by accident.
- Megan Whalen Turner
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Image of Regina Spektor
We're living in a den of thieves
- Regina Spektor
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Image of Ovid
We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have.
- Ovid
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Image of Jackson Pollock
The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.
- Jackson Pollock
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Image of Holly Black
I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
- Holly Black
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Image of John Milton
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
- John Milton
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Image of Laura Ingalls Wilder
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Image of William Shakespeare
O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!
- William Shakespeare
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Image of Vladimir Putin
Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.
- Vladimir Putin
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Image of Laozi
Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.
- Laozi
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Image of Tamora Pierce
I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief.
- Tamora Pierce
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Image of Jennifer Morrison
My favorite movie ever is Bicycle Thieves.
- Jennifer Morrison
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Image of Ozzy Osbourne
Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.
- Ozzy Osbourne
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Image of Dwight L. Moody
The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Image of Jeanette Winterson
I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.
- Jeanette Winterson
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Image of Patrick Rothfuss
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
- Patrick Rothfuss
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Image of Aesop
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.
- Aesop
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Image of Darren Shan
I know who the demon thief is - it's me!
- Darren Shan
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Image of Horace
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
- Horace
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Ally Carter
Time, the greatest thief of all.
- Ally Carter
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Image of Woody Allen
You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.
- Woody Allen
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Image of Lord Chesterfield
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
- Lord Chesterfield
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Image of Jean Cocteau
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
- Jean Cocteau
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Image of Sam Ewing
There's no thief like a bad movie.
- Sam Ewing
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Image of Bob Dylan
No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Bob Dylan
There must be some kind of way out of here,' said the joker to the thief.
- Bob Dylan
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Criss Jami
A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.
- Criss Jami
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of Kate Atkinson
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.
- Kate Atkinson
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Image of Thomas Huxley
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
- Thomas Huxley
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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