Ill-Gotten Gains Quotes

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he'll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits.

Do not seek dishonest gains: dishonest gains are losses.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Pirates did not store all their treasures in treasure chests, then bury them and draw maps to them. That's a movie invention. In reality, pirates spent their money as fast as they could steal it because they knew they were living on borrowed time. They didn't want to wait around to enjoy the money.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.

As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.