Thieves Quotes - Page 21

• But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

  Mitch Albom

  Father, Way, Concentration

  Mitch Albom (2009). “For One More Day”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sorry, Wind, Jail

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• What are they waiting to see?" Sam follows my gaze and I shrug. "Who knows? You could always do a dance, or tell a joke, or... kiss the bride?" "Not the bride," he wraps his arms around me, and gradually pulls me close. Our noses are practically touching. I can see right into his eyes. I can feel the warmth of his skin. "you." Me. "The girl who stole my phone." His lips brush across the corner of my mouth. "The thief." "It was in a bin." "Still stealing." "No it isn't-," I begin. But now his mouth is firmly on mine, and I can't speak at all. And suddenly, life is good.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Girl, Eye, Life Is Good

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• Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

  James Lee Burke

  Morning, Men, Mirrors

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Passing Away, Doe, World

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• You will make the boy Thief king?" he [Nahuseresh] said. "When you could have had me?" Attolia allowed a slight smile. "A fine revenge for the loss of a hand," said the Mede, close to snarling. "I will have my sovereignty," said Attolia thinly. "Oh, yes, a fine one-handed figurehead he will make," spat Nahuseresh. Then he remembered Attolia's flattery earlier that morning. "Or do I insult your lover?" he asked. "Not a lover," said Attolia. "Merely my choice for king.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Morning, Kings, Revenge

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• Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Liars, Boys, Voice

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• When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Past, Gone

  1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

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• Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.

  Aristotle

  Funny, Humor, Crime

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• Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Fall, Glasses

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The hole calls the thiefe.
  [The hole calls the thief.]

  George Herbert

  Holes

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• When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.
  [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]

  George Herbert

  Honest, Thunder

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• Hannah Tinti writes with uncommon grace and stunning insight. Her quirky tribe of outcasts will break into your dreams and steal your spirit. Surrender to them! Let your heart be broken! Only then will you know the tender thrill of their wild companionship. The Good Thief is pure delight. When you wake from this dream, you will wake bedazzled

  Melanie Rae Thon

  Dream, Writing, Heart

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• Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

  Peter O'Toole

  Church, Pope

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• A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.”
  If he is wise he has not been impoverished.
  Nor has the fool been enriched.
  The thief flatters us by stealing.
  We flatter him by complaining.

  Ben Hecht

  Wise, Men, Yelling

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Stupidity, Intellectual, Honor

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, People, Justice

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• One of the great things about Houston is that they police themselves. It's the way Boston was in the '80s. No hacks or thieves are tolerated in the community, and that's HUGE.

  Joe Rogan

  Boston, Community, Police

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• The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.

  William Carlos Williams

  Crazy, Lakes, Kentucky

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.53, New Directions Publishing

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• No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

  L. Frank Baum

  Treasure, Skillful, Acquire

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 2 of 2. Little Wizard Stories of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Scarecrow Of Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Lost Princess Of Oz,”, p.388, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Comparison is the thief of joy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Healing, Feel Good, Joy

  "Becoming a Great School: Harnessing the Powers of Quality Management and Collaborative Leadership". Book by Dr. Kenneth B. Cooper, Nels Gustafson and Joseph G. Salah (p. 9), December 24, 2013.

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• Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours," muttered Locke, pointing the first two fingers of his left hand into the darkness. The Dagger of the Thirteenth, a thief's gesture against evil. "Your night is my cloak, my shield, my escape from those who hunt to feed the noose. I will fear no evil, for you have made the night my friend." "Bless the Benefactor," said Jean, squeezing Locke's left forearm. "Peace and profit to his children.

  Scott Lynch

  Peace, Children, Night

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1253, Del Rey

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• Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

  Robert Browning

  Atheist, Writing, Atheism

  'Bishop Blougram's Apology' (1855) l. 395

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• You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words in the lining of my coat. I take them out like a jewel thief when no-one's watching. They haven't faded. Nothing about you has faded. You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Mirrors, Blood

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• Throughout history, works of art have been stolen under mysterious circumstances...Said by some to be the work of "Phantom" thieves... ...Others dismiss it as mere myth. But in this country, the stories are all too true. The name of this mysterious thief? "Dark." And his true identity? No one knows.

  Yukiru Sugisaki

  Country, Art, Dark

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