Thieves Quotes - Page 11

• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

  William Blake

  Passion, People, Hardship

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.135, Penguin

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• Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

  Douglas Coupland

  Taken, Rust, Lists

  "Hey Nostradamus!". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2003.

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• Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.

  Leonard Cohen

  Eye, Night, Hair

  "Famous Blue Raincoat". Song by Leonard Cohen, 1971.

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• All I wanted to do was lie in the dry grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you're halfway to Methana.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Lying, Feet, Forever

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• The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Eye, Hands, Knees

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.16, HarperCollins

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• Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Humor, Men

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

  Juvenal

  Pockets, Faces, Empty

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• As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

  Ben Kingsley

  Alive, Singers, Might

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

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• I went to school with Steven Wright who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought if these guys can do it then so can I.

  Denis Leary

  School, Guy, One Day

  "Frank Skinner and Denis Leary: flatmates reunited". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2003.

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• I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

  Al Lewis

  Wall, Thinking, People

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• The ship is sinking The ship is sinking There's leak, there's a leak,in the boiler room The poor, the lame, the blind Who ore the ones that we kept in charge Killers, thieves, and lawyers God's Away, God's away God's away on Business

  Tom Waits

  Boiler Room, Lame, Killers

  Song: God's Away On Business

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• He could tell her he loved her. He ached to shout it out loud for the gods and everyone to hear. Little good it would do. Better to trust in the moon's promises than in the word of the Thief of Eddis. He was famous in three countries for his lies.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Country, Lying, Moon

  "The Queen of Attolia". Book by Megan Whalen Turner, April 2000.

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• Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, Forever, Together

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• A thief believes everybody steals.

  E. W. Howe

  Lying, Believe, Dishonesty

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• But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.

  Shannon Hale

  Suicide, Country, Wall

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.374, A&C Black

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• My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

  Josh Hartnett

  Queens, Real, Gun

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• My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Father, Stories

  "Are we ever going to make this picture?". Interview with Alex Williams, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2003.

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• The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.

  Joe Rogan

  Hate, Ideas, Guy

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

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• What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White Man

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• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  Pablo Casals

  Originality, Forget, Composer

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

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• If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

  Denis Diderot

  Sublime, Essentials, Wickedness

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

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• This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Liars, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]

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• Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Bankers, Lucky, Might

  "Preying on the Poor". www.tomdispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

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• That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he or she stole, and from whom? With the artist it is not how much he or she took from whom, but what the artist did with it.

  Lukas Foss

  Artist, Doe, Analogies

  "About The Creative Process". "The Yale Review", Volume 94, Issue 3, (pp. 117-118), July 2006.

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• And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Liberty, Honest

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