232 Quotes About Stealing

It's amazing […] how perfectly honest people who would starve rather than steal sixpence, will steal books without compunction.

It should be obvious why it's easier to copy someone else's painting, rather than work on site or even from a photograph. All the selection, rejection and design have already been done for you.

...Borrower's don't steal.""Except from human beings," said the boy.Arrietty burst out laughing; she laughed so much that she had to hide her face in the primrose. "Oh dear," she gasped with tears in her eyes, "you are funny!" She stared upward at his puzzled face. "Human beans are for Borrowers - like bread's for butter!

It's not stealing, it's retrieving.

For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks! If dey's one thing I learned in ten years, listenin' to de white quality on de Pullman cars, it's dat same fact. And when I gets a chance to use it -- from stowaway to Emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

It's sort of an action flick. You can't be that funny trying to steal diamonds.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.