Thieves Quotes - Page 14

When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?

Saint Basil

Names, Clothes, Giving

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Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men — and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort — as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Ignorance, Mean, Men

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The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.

Louis L'Amour

Men, Want, Matter

Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.19, Bantam

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The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

Clarence Day

Eggs, Legs, Lips

CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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Life everywhere is in vast and endless variety. So it is with life eternal, that gift of God, constituting, in its length and breadth and height and depth, the reward of the righteous. The penitent, dying thief is not going into heaven like the triumphant, dying Paul.

Herrick Johnson

Heaven, Dying, Depth

Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

Niccolo Machiavelli

War, Vicious, Gallows

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As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?

Megan Whalen Turner

Boys, Men, Years

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Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.

Jim Butcher

Car, Sweetheart, Stealing

Jim Butcher (2003). “Death Masks: Book five of The Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin Group

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The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

Megan Whalen Turner

Point Break, Gunpowder, Flash

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Would you have your hand back, Eugenides? And lose Attolia? And see Attolia lost to the Mede?' Eugenides's eyes were open. In front of his face the floor was littered with tiny bits of glass that glittered in the candlelight. 'You have your answer, Little Thief.

Megan Whalen Turner

Eye, Glasses, Hands

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Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.

Pink

Heart, My Heart

Song: Pink Just Give Me A Reason, Album: The Truth About Love

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We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

Bennett Madison

Ends, Borrowers

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The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they claimed it was all theirs. "My trees," they said, "you can't eat them apples. My stream, you can't fish here. My wood, you're not t' hunt. My earth, my water, my castle, my daughter, keep your hands away or I'll chop 'em off, but maybe if you kneel t' me I'll let you have a sniff." You call us thieves, but at least a thief has t' be brave and clever and quick. A kneeler only has t' kneel.

George R. R. Martin

Daughter, Kings, Clever

George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1914, Bantam

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When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

Saint Basil

Christian, Peace, Money

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On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm of male expression and action, violence is experienced and articulated as love and freedom.

Andrea Dworkin

Self, Expression, Feminist

Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

Raymond Carver

Liars, Becoming, Strange

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It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

Mike Royko

Running, Dog, Cities

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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 may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

Peter O'Toole

Honor, Arabia, May

"Fictional character: T.E. Lawrence". "Lawrence of Arabia", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

Niccolo Machiavelli

War

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Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

Satyajit Ray

Discovery, Cinema, Fundamentals

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Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

Lewis Carroll

Son, Men, Snakes

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If a pig goes upon the threshing-floor, or a field, or a garden, and the owner of the meadow, or the field, or the garden smites it so that it die, he shall give it back to its owner; but if he does not give it back, he becomes a thief.

Orson Scott Card

Garden, Pigs, Giving

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Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.

Jim Rohn

Promise, Mind, Purses

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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

Thomas More

Men, Dying, Might

Thomas More (2013). “Utopia”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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