Thieves Quotes - Page 6

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

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.

Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or she stole, and from whom? With the artist it is not how much he or she took from whom, but what the artist did with it.

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

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists. We are lucky, indeed, if the needless bureaucrats are mere easy-going loafers. They are more likely today to be energetic reformers busily discouraging and disrupting production.

Opportunity makes a thief.

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

The "joker" here ["All Along the Watchtower" ] is the older [Bob] Dylan himself, whining about exploitation, and the thief's rejoinder re-contextualizes the earlier critique into the religious frames that would become more prominent as time went on.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

Your policy should be a mixture between your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means.

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

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.