Burglars Quotes

• The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

  Elias Canetti

  Darkness, Unexpected, Crime

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

  James Chiles

  Skins, Way, Vaults

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• Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Morning, Night, Up Early

  "Tremendous trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

  O. Henry

  Funny, Time, Art

  Sixes and Sevens,'Makes The Whole World Kin' (1911).

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• Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

  Miles Kington

  Work, Night, Musician

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• We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Men, Criminals

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• There's more than one way to be a girl

  Lauren Faust

  Girl, Censorship In Books, Censoring Books

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• There is more than one way to burn a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Way, Censorship

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  May, Honest

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• There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing
  If my burglar alarm starts ringing

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Flower, Hip Hop

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• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  Rita Coolidge

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• Actors and burglars work better at night.

  Cedric Hardwicke

  Night, Actors

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

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• Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Muggers, Never Forget

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• The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Moon, Vocabulary, Owl

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• Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Merit, Tools

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

  Terry Teachout

  Moon, Years, Butchers

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• I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Summer, Dog, Strong

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• If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

  Bill Moyers

  Bark, Basements, Supposed To Be

  Source: progressive.org

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• Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

  Grenville Kleiser

  House, Mind, Assassins

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

  Werner Herzog

  Night, Careers, Steps

  "Jack Reacher - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Uplifting, Book

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• If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

  George Orwell

  Character, Class, Ordinary

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

  Allen Carr

  Men, Order, Bricks

  Allen Carr (2009). “Easy Way to Control Alcohol”, p.80, Arcturus Publishing

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• Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

  Ron Dart

  Media, Cynical, Political

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