Burglars Quotes - Page 2

• Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

  Sam Ewing

  Doors, Cities, House

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• If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Government, Host, Shows

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• I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

  Nina Bawden

  Mother, Made Up Stories, Serial Killer

  Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

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• I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.

  Tre Cool

  People

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• Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

  Hesketh Pearson

  God, Believe, Men

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• I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

  David Eddings

  Moving, Mind, Stories

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• Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Pirate, Would Be

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.51, Routledge

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• claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

  Joseph Conrad

  Land, Practice, Creating

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• You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

  Saint Augustine

  Sleep, House, Greed

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• Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

  Charles Portis

  Wall, Home, Garden

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• It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

  Gough Whitlam

  Political, Firsts, First Time

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• [it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

  Mike Gorman

  Doors, Class, Stories

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• "Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Numbers, Knowing, People

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• ...Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.?

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Gun, Guarantees, Lists

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• Don't throw a baby at anything - even a burglar.

  Eugene Mirman

  Baby

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• To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em.

  Ted Nugent

  Children, Gun, Guy

  "Ted Nugent’s Racist Spectacle at Texas Governor’s Inaugural Ball", www.motherjones.com. January 19, 2007.

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• We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

  Ross Macdonald

  Broken, Wish, Locks

  Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”

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• God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  God, Men, Trying

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• A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.

  Roja Dove

  Memories, Cat, Keys

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• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

  Bob Woodward

  Lying, Voice, Dollars

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• What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Effort, Political

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

  Simon Cowell

  Rights, Apples, Worry

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• The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Past, America, Rights

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 535, 1991.

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• When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cutting, Loss, Village

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Policeman's Lot”

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