Stealing Quotes - Page 18

• A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Reading, Pennsylvania, Lawyer

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• Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

  Euripides

  Men, Feet, Wicked

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  My Friends, Ifs

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Taken, Fruit

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.803

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• Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

  Horace

  Cutting, Men, Hands

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• When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Girl, Country, Children

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.12

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

  Brigham Young

  Suffering, May, Want

  Brigham Young (1854). “Journal of Discourses”, p.108

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• Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

  Voltaire

  Evil, Infidelity, Adultery

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2779, Delphi Classics

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• Steal what works, fix what's broke, fake the rest.

  Pat Williams

  Fake, Broke

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• Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.

  William Petty

  War, Mean, Men

  Sir William Petty (1769). “Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland”, p.7

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• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  James Brown

  Song, War, Rapper

  "Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, June 12, 2006.

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• Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

  Edward Young

  Men, Novelty, Lasts

  Edward Young (1802). “The Works of the Author of the Night-thoughts”, p.112

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• Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!

  Robert Blair

  Beauty, Heart, Giving

  Robert Blair (1851). “The Grave: A Poem”, p.37

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• I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, "Why am I lying to everybody?" I would hear other people lie and be like, "You sound so stupid." So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.

  Kendall Jenner

  Lying, Stupid, Liars

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know a lot of other actors that don't like to look at other references to their characters and things. But I like it. I always look at everything, I read all the books. I read Dieter's "Escape from Laos." I watched the documentary again and again and again. I recorded it just to listen to him a lot. I just don't suffer from feeling like I'm getting caught into an imitation. I just feel like I want to steal some good stuff if it's in there.

  Christian Bale

  Book, Character, Feelings

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

  John Newton

  Time, Loss, Years

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.153

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• Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power.

  Warren Ellis

  Cutting, Comic Book

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• Age steals away all things, even the mind.

  Virgil

  Birthday, Philosophical, Mind

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• We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, People, Suffering

  "You are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring" by Paul Hawken, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Killing a guy and stealing his wife and child isn't too nice a thing to do.

  Billy Connolly

  Children, Nice, Wife

  "Billy Connolly Is Fido!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 17, 2007.

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• I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.

  Keith Thurman

  Throwing Punches, Rounds, I Can

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• The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Ignorance, Men

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• There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers.  It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say

  Ervin Seale

  Hurt, Careers, People

  ERVIN SEALE (1971). “TAKE OFF FROM WITHIN”

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