Thieves Quotes

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

~ Jess C. Scott

I can pick a liar from a lineup of thieves and slanderers: the best of the best. I was hoping you would not resist the information we need but I must ask you now to answer my question truthfully and to choose your next words wisely. What does the key open?

~ Celia Mcmahon

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

~ Thomas More

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid.

~ C. Joybell C.

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner,Let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying out for mercy, Let there be no surcease to his agony till he sink in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not.When at last he goeth to his final punishment, Let the flames of Hell consume him forever.[attributed to the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona, Spain]

~ Nicholas A. Basbanes

Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

Some kleptomaniacs do not steal things only; they also, while some only, steal lovers.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

~ Criss Jami

Wake early, take more!

~ Julie Elise Landry

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.

~ Angelika Rust

In a kingdom of thieves, the ways of an honest man will always be a crime.

~ Dennis Adonis

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Dream thieves are those who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other people's dreams to work on. They suffer to do attempt what they can't do

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The gangs of arrogant thieves that can rob you of your success are your own doubts, fears and low self-image. Get them arrested and kept distances apart and you and your accomplishments are secured.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and Roland had as much to do with the majority of medieval knights as the historical Jesus with the temporal riches and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, or any church for that matter. Generally accompanied by their immoral entourage or servants, priests, and whores, they went from tourney to tourney like a touring rock and roll band, sports team, or gang of South Sea pirates. Court to court, skirmish to skirmish, rape to rape. Fighting as the noble's substitution for work.

~ Tod Wodicka

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.

~ Mark Twain

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.

~ Robert Higgs

99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no match for their addictions. They will be driven to do things they would normally never have considered all in the name of getting high. Sad, but true. So if you're thinking of trying drugs, keep in mind that all the people you will be dealing with are likely to steal from you and lie to you at your own expense.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Thieves and liars kill indirectly, unintentionally, and with no other weapon than their tongues and malice.

~ A.e.h. Veenman

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

~ Ludwig Von Mises

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere…including in branches of the U.S. government.

~ Sherry Morris

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

~ Scott Lynch

Little thieves get shot, but great ones escape.” Kelly Oliver, WOLF: A Jessica James Mystery

~ Kelly Oliver

If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

~ George Herbert

Friends are thieves of time.

~ Francis Bacon

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

~ Karl Kraus