Doyle Brunson Quotes

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

I like playing thieves.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

I haven't been part of the criminal world.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin

In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.

We're living in a den of thieves

It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one.

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

You ain't gotta be a dope boy to have money.

I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer [of the Fistful trilogy] because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

In about one-third of credit card consolidations, within a short period of time, the cards come back out of the wallet, and in no time at all, they're charged back up. Then you're in an even worse position, because you have the credit card debt and the consolidation loan to worry about. You're in a hole that's twice as deep - and twice as steep.

The rhetoric is pretending, constantly pretending that I have been charged with a crime, and never mentioning that I have been already previously cleared, never mentioning that the woman herself says that the police made it up.