Thief Quotes

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

A thief believes everybody steals.

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

A selfish man is a thief.

Opportunity makes a thief.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.