Thieves Quotes - Page 17

• When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

  Brian Patten

  Sight, Clothes, Poetry

  Brian Patten (2007). “Selected Poems”, ePenguin

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• Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.

  Karl Kraus

  Victim, Valuable, Distinguished

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Liars

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Honor, Way

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• You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.

  Gary Gygax

  Adventure, Land, Giving

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• People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever.

  Fay Weldon

  Children, Order, People

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• Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.

  Christine de Pizan

  Men, Shoes, Giving

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• A procrastinator is a thief of his or her own time.

  Jhoon Goo Rhee

  Motivational, Time, Art

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• You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Liars, Dragons

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

  William Shakespeare

  Way, Stealing, Shows

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 3, l. [61]

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• My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

  Robyn Carr

  Father, Alzheimer's, Mind

  robyn carr (1992). “mind tryst”

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• I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye." "If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she. "And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me." "But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstrously?" "Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing, For I dearly love a good harp," said she.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Play, Soldier

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The last unicorn”

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• How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take a test you haven't studied for and you aren't wearing any clothes. And you've left your wallet at home. When I am out there, in time, I am inverted, changed into a desperate version of myself. I become a thief, a vagrant, an animal who runs and hides. I startle old women and amaze children. I am a trick, an illusion of the highest order, so incredible that I am actually true.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Running, Dream, Children

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.

  Cyprian

  Thinking, Heaven, Soul

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• No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

  Bob Dylan

  Life Is, Excited, Reason

  'All Along the Watchtower' (1968 song)

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• 40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Cia Agents, Criminals, Scoundrels

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.

  George Carlin

  Running, Artist, America

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Littles, Deals

  William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.152, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

  Charles Dickens

  Procrastination, Classic, Collars

  Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.131, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Eggs

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• The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Honor, Faces, Facts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.

  Clive Barker

  Pride, Eight, Class

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• Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

  Diogenes

  Saws, Temples, Littles

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• Economy is the thief of time.

  Ethel Mumford

  One Day, Economy

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

  Gertrude Atherton

  Portraits, Hamilton, Painter

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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