Stealing Quotes - Page 5

• As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

  Henry Adams

  Real, Democracy, May

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.462, Harvard University Press

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• An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.

  Auren Hoffman

  Home, Office, Entrepreneur

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• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Summer, Country, Flower

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• Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

  Emily Carr

  Fall, Hypocrisy, Conviction

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

  Werner Herzog

  Ambition, Labs, Cameras

  "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe". Documentary, 1980.

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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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• It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

  Black Francis

  Obvious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the sun died, I went up to heaven and saw God and all the people who had died a long time ago. God told me to come back and tell my people they must be good and love one another, and not fight, or steal, or lie. He gave me this dance to give to my people.

  Wovoka

  Lying, Native American, Fighting

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• The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his sleeve.

  George Herbert

  Sleeves, Geese

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• 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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• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Clever, Writing, Arrows

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• Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

  Stephen King

  Stories, Pay, Blind

  "Stephen King's New Work Hits the Web". abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2000.

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• Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Plagiarism, Glad, Borrowed

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.389

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Sunshine, Fate, Blow

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.118

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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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• Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Winning, Ems

  Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135

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• It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Men, World, Seems

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”

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• If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

  Harold Laski

  Book, Law, Purses

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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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• 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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• A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.

  John Harington

  Lying, Fall, Men

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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. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Justice, Suffering

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• You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

  Peter Zumthor

  Glasses, House, Skins

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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Twilight, Games, Play

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.

  Patti Davis

  Mother, Father, Eye

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