Robbery Quotes - Page 2

• Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

  George Washington

  Book, 4th Of July, Preparation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.

  Ronald Biggs

  Boys, Tea, Brain

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make a living, and the idea of doing one small bank robbery or something, just trying to find your way in a life, finding your footing and ending up behind bars.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Children, Leaving, Poverty

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Hello...911? I'd like to report a robbery, looks like Trish and Tomko stole the show!

  Trish Stratus

  Wwe, Looks, Hello

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• We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

  Wilkie Collins

  House, Breakfast, Matter

  Wilkie Collins (2007). “The Moonstone”, p.124, 1st World Publishing

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• Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Weather, Tree

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.74, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army

  Warren Farrell

  Army, Men, Boys

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Morning, Pain

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Introductory chapter, 1866.

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• We've got the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble when it comes to crime in this country. The FBI says burglary and robbery cost U.S. taxpayers $3.8 billion annually. Securities fraud alone costs four times that. And securities fraud is nothing to the cost of oil spills, price-fixing, and dangerous or defective products. Fraud by health-care corporations alone costs us between $100 billion and $400 billion a year. No three-strikes-and-you're-out for these guys. Remember the S&L scandal? $500 billion.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Years, Oil

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• I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion.

  Gaspar Noe

  Real, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Every year, an average of 9,200 Americans are murdered by handguns, according to Department of Justice statistics. This does not include suicides or the tens of thousands of robberies, rapes and assaults committed with handguns. This level of violence must be stopped.

  Ronald Reagan

  Suicide, Gun, Average

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• ...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.

  Angelina Grimke

  Believe, Character, Responsibility

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• It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.

  Karl Marx

  Cheating, War, Franklin

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling, Friedrich Engels (2011). “Capital, Volume I: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.

  Tam David-West

  Want, Election, Corruption

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• My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.

  Maria Jeritza

  Believe, Men, Soul

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• Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery

  Iceberg Slim

  Saws, Fairs

  Iceberg Slim (2011). “Pimp: The Story of My Life”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of deaths feel sad. Philip Seymour Hoffman's feels like a robbery.

  James Poniewozik

  Feels, Philip

  Twitter post from Feb 2, 2014

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• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Clever, Writing, Arrows

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• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Orientals. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America we love. I shudder to contemplate the future under nonwhite occupation; rapes, murders, robberies multiplied a hundred fold, illiteracy such as in Haiti, medicine such as in Mexico, and tyranny such as in Togoland.

  David Duke

  Ku Klux Klan, White, Medicine

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• To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Business, Stupid, Danger

  "Garden of Tortures". Book by Octave Mirbeau, 1899.

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• Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Thieves, Stealing

  1603 Angelo. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.2, l.181-2.

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• Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder to robbery. I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book, as a bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sweet, Flower, Book

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• The moment that the state came into conflict with the higher power, the moment that it set itself up as an end in itself, it became identified with Augustine's earthly city and lost all claims to a higher sanction than the law of force and self-interest. Without justice, what is a great kingdom but a great robbery, magnum latrocinium?

  Christopher Dawson

  Self, Law, Cities

  Christopher Dawson (1932). “The Making of Europe: An Introduction to the History of European Unity”, p.174, CUA Press

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• Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

  Victor Hugo

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.669, Wordsworth Editions

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