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Quotes About Ill-gotten

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the question Has never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.
~ Napoleon Hill
Much of Mr. Bush's 28 percent approval rating is born not of 'failed policies' - of which there are many - but of the ill-gotten gains pilfered from a pre-Bush inauguration strategy to send the message to Republicans that the Democrats play politics harder and better.
~ Andrew Breitbart
Ill-gotten gains work evil.
~ Sophocles
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
~ Unknown