Thief Quotes

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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

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

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

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.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief.

A thief believes everybody steals.

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.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

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

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

A selfish man is a thief.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.