Thief Quotes

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A thief believes everybody steals.

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