144 Quotes About Thieves

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

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

Guilt is the thief of life.

The hole calls the thiefe. [The hole calls the thief.]

When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]

When your money is taken by a thief, you get nothing in return. When your money is taken through taxes to support needless bureaucrats, precisely the same situation exists. We are lucky, indeed, if the needless bureaucrats are mere easy-going loafers. They are more likely today to be energetic reformers busily discouraging and disrupting production.

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

There is one death bed repentance recorded in the Bible (the thief on the cross), so that no one despair, but there is ONLY one, so that no one will presume.