Stealing Quotes - Page 14

• Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sheep, Thieves, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.237

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• In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Hunger, Hungry, These Days

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
  [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]

  George Herbert

  Feet, Giving, Philanthropy

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• He that steals an egg will steal an ox.

  George Herbert

  Honesty, Eggs

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.

  Alexander Smith

  Happiness, Pulse, Glimpse

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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• Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minister's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves.

  James Gates Percival

  Farewell, Night, Shade

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• Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.

  Robin Thicke

  Song, Inspiration, Writing

  "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.

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• The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view, and places the Christian devil above him. It is he, according to the absurd story in Genesis, that outwits the Creator in the Garden Eden, and steals from Him His favorite creature, man, and at last obliges Him to beget a son, and put that son to death, to get man back again; and this the priests of the Christian religion call redemption.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Son, Men

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.598, e-artnow

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• Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Self, Pockets, May

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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• It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.

  Jane Addams

  Dinner, Poverty, Morality

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.10, Youcanprint

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• People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

  John Pfahl

  Thinking, Opposites, People

  John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”

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• For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.

  Edna O'Brien

  Writing, Thieves, Littles

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• As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so are there certain prerogative geniuses, who are above plagiaries, who cannot be said to steal, but, from their improvement of a thought, rather to borrow it, and repay the commonwealth of letters with interest again; and may wore properly be said to adopt, than to kidnap a sentiment, by leaving it heir to their own fame.

  Laurence Sterne

  Leaving, Genius, Letters

  Laurence Sterne (1783). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.101

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• You have really hard times and you have really good years and you have years that you can't feed your family and you have to sell cars. I gotta tell you, stealing cars is a hell of a lot more fun than selling them!

  Ned Luke

  Fun, Hard Times, Years

  "The GQ&A: 'Grand Theft Auto V' Actors Talk Franklin, Michael, and Crazy Trevor". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.gq.com. September 27, 2013.

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• Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them

  Sam Rutigliano

  Eye, Guy, Trying

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• I don't take jokes from other people. It's really not cool to steal jokes from anybody. It's not cool to steal anything from anybody. Jokes are no different.

  Brian Regan

  People, Different, Jokes

  Source: www.citypaper.com

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• There will always be music on the Internet that people can steal. What's new is not theft. What's new is a distribution channel for stolen property called the Internet. So there will always be illegal music on the Internet.

  Steve Jobs

  People, Internet, Illegal

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. May 1, 2004.

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• It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Lying, Generations, Conviction

  Beryl Bainbridge (1981). “A weekend with Claude”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy.

  Harriet Morgan

  Funny, Crazy, Heart

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• One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

  Aesop

  Complaining, Ifs

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• I tend to wear a coat more for the fact that I worry if I'm going to get drunk, I'm going to get pickpocketed. And a coat goes over your pockets so it's harder for someone to get their hand in and steal your phone or wallet out of your pocket. It's an unnecessary level of thinking that may lessen the enjoyment you have out of life.

  Jon Richardson

  Thinking, Phones, Hands

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

  Margaret Cho

  Years, Drug, Affair

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.64, Ballantine Books

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• Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Heart, Sunset

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.11

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• There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Lying, Actors, Shame

  "Frankenstein: Man or monster?" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2011.

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