Thieves Quotes

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

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.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I'd still be alive by now.

Friends are thieves of time.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.