Burglars Quotes

• The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

  Elias Canetti

  Darkness, Unexpected, Crime

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  May, Honest

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• Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

  James Chiles

  Skins, Way, Vaults

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• We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophical, Men, Criminals

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• There's more than one way to be a girl

  Lauren Faust

  Girl, Censorship In Books, Censoring Books

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• There is more than one way to burn a book.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Way, Censorship

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

  O. Henry

  Funny, Time, Art

  Sixes and Sevens,'Makes The Whole World Kin' (1911).

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• Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Morning, Night, Up Early

  "Tremendous trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

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• Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

  Miles Kington

  Work, Night, Musician

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• There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing
  If my burglar alarm starts ringing

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Flower, Hip Hop

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• Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

  Rita Coolidge

  Funny, Humor, Opportunity

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• The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

  Terry Teachout

  Moon, Years, Butchers

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• The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Moon, Vocabulary, Owl

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• Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Muggers, Never Forget

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• I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.

  Alicia Ostriker

  Summer, Dog, Strong

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• If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

  Bill Moyers

  Bark, Basements, Supposed To Be

  Source: progressive.org

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• Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

  Grenville Kleiser

  House, Mind, Assassins

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Merit, Tools

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

  Werner Herzog

  Night, Careers, Steps

  "Jack Reacher - Werner Herzog interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.

  Ian Holloway

  Swag, Waiting, House

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• Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Lying, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.954, Library of America

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• A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.

  Kate Jacobs

  Men, Fire, Sight

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• There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Space, Phones, Oxygen

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• We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

  Vince Vaughn

  Government, Arms, Bears

  "Vince Vaughn: guns in schools will prevent mass shootings" by Benjamin Lee, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2015.

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