Thief Quotes

[Describing Abraham Lincoln:] Filthy story-teller, despot, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, robber, swindler, tyrant, field-butcher, land-pirate.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Opportunity makes a thief.

As to the thief, male or female cut off his or her hands.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.

I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief.

When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

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

If a thief commits a theft by night, if the owner kills the thief, the thief shall be killed lawfully

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

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

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

I'm the guy who happened to be home the night Kat came to steal a Monet."- Hale

Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

The triumph of morality: A thief who has broken into a bedroom claims his sense of shame had been outraged, and by threatening theoccupants with exposure of an immoral act he blackmails them into not bringing charges for burglary.

I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.

I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers.