Thief Quotes - page 3

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. (Hunter S. Thompson)
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery. View quote
Octavia Butler
I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat. View quote
E. E. Cummings
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief. View quote
George Herbert
Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Opportunity makes a thief. View quote
Francis Bacon
Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves! View quote
Daniel Defoe
Your kisses are thieves which leave me wanting nothing. View quote
Vanna Bonta
The sweets of Pillage can be known To no one but the Thief, Compassion for Integrity Is his divinest Grief. (Emily Dickinson)
The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief. View quote
Dwight L. Moody
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. View quote
Euripides
But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans. View quote
Patrick Rothfuss
The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love! View quote
William Shakespeare
Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. View quote
Thomas Hood
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! View quote
John Milton
Hunger makes a thief of any man. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Do not despair: one thief was saved. Do not presume: one thief was damned. (Augustine of Hippo)
Summer came. For the books thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. View quote
Markus Zusak
A NICE THOUGHT One was a book thief. The other stole the sky. View quote
Markus Zusak
The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career. View quote
Markus Zusak
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse. View quote
Sara Gruen
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