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Thief Quotes (page 5)

Terry Prachett quote: "Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands..."
Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero. Terry Prachett
When a people is denied light, home, freedom, justice, all the good things without which life is not possible, and which constitute man's patrimony, a person has the right to deal with the people who despoil him, like a thief who assaults us in the roadway. No qualifications, no exceptions. Jose Rizal
Jack Kerouac quote: "I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a..."
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief. Jack Kerouac
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon."
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon. J. R. R. Tolkien
With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row, and your magazine-husband who one day just had to go. And your gentleness now, which you just can't help but show - who among them do you think would employ you? Now you stand with your thief, you're on his parole, with your holy medallion which your fingertips fold. And your saintlike face and your ghostlike soul - oh, who among them do you think could destroy you? Bob Dylan
I am willing to be a literary thief if it has so been ordained; I am even willing to be caught robbing the ancient dead alongside of Hopkinson Smith, for he is my friend and a good fellow, and I think would be as honest as any one if he could do it without occasioning remark; but I am not willing to antedate his crimes by fifteen hundred years. I must ask you to knock off part of that. Mark Twain
Enter, stranger, but take heed. Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors. A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware. Of finding more than treasure there. J. K. Rowling
Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief. Diogenes
Maya Angelou quote: "The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's..."
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it, Maya Angelou
William Shakespeare quote: "The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He..."
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. William Shakespeare
Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while Neil Gaiman
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth. One more thin gypsy thief. Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good so I never tried. And Jane came by with a lock of your hair. She said that you gave it to her. That night that you planned to go clear Leonard Cohen
John Gunther quote: "What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him."
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him. John Gunther
Your topsoil's a disaster area? it's starved for nitrogen, it's been fertilized for years by the criminally insane, and whatever thief put in your irrigation system ought to be flogged through the fleet. Peter S. Beagle
Oscar Wilde quote: "He was always late on principle, his principle being that..."
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time Oscar Wilde

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