Burglary Quotes

• We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

  Jean Anouilh

  House, Poison, Ships

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• The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

  Bob Woodward

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Maps, Scandal

  "Readers recommend: songs about scandal" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2015.

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• If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.

  John Wilmot

  Grateful, Heart, Wine

  Letter to the diplomat Henry Savile, 1674.

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• A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  War, Men, Games

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Acceptance

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• If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Honesty, Men, Down And

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• Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Arson, Causes

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• A man can be prevented from breaking into other persons' houses by shutting him up, but shutting him up may not alter his disposition to commit burglary.

  John Dewey

  Men, House, May

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.23, 谷月社

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• Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can't be right.

  Theresa May

  Simple, Justice, Criminals

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

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• One can make one's life a complete misery, worrying about burglaries and shipwrecks, but ask anyone, anyone you know ... earth-shattering disasters and fabulous inheritances all seems to take place exclusively in the newspapers.

  Jean Anouilh

  Worry, Inheritance, Earth

  Jean Anouilh (1991). “The rehearsal or Love punished”, Methuen

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• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says "In a Relationship!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Nice, Men, Jail

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• Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

  Bill Maher

  Home, Suing, Break

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• June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

  Carl Bernstein

  Morning, Men, June

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Night, Oysters, Joy

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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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• There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Inquiry, Moral

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Art, Finance, Fine

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• After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."

  Anne Sebba

  Mother, Freedom, Grateful

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• The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to make it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.

  James P. Comer

  School, Frustration, Emotional

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• A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

  Greg Smith

  Majority, Downtown, Common

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• [Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Self, Firsts, Opinion

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Association, Murder, Granted

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• This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy.

  Lil Wayne

  Black, Brain, Ems

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• Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!

  Will Rogers

  Government, Four, Congress

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.66, Rowman & Littlefield

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