Quotes About Theft

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.

It isn't always the value of what is taken that makes us hate. Sometimes it's just the fact that we've been robbed.

I touched the small sacred images. I shook my head and bit my lip, as if to say, How awful that he should have stolen these! But I also found it very funny. And further proof that God had no power over me.

Treachery it was, the theft of immortality. A dark Prometheus stealing a luminescent fire. Laughter in the darkness. Laughter echoing in the catacomb. Echoing as if down the centuries.

El conflicto estalla entre la moral del artista y la moral de la sociedad, no entre la estética y la moral. Pero a menudo esto no es comprendido; y entonces aparece la pérdida, la tragedia. Un artista que roba pinturas de una tienda, por ejemplo, se imagina haber tomado una decisión inevitable pero inmortal y luego se ve a sí mismo como caído en desgracia

Massino's crew stashed stolen expensive men's suits in a warehouse in the Corona section of Queens, and propelled the clothes on a rope line attached to a haberdashery across the street whenever customers showed up for a cut-rate sale.

Artemis the bitch goddess. You know her. She's the one who stole your soul. (Simi) She didn't steal it. (Gallagher) Of course she did. She steals everything. (Simi)

What if he wakes up before you get home and steals you blind? (Wayne) Steals what? My clothes won't fit him and I have nothing of any value. Not unless he likes my Peter, Paul, and Mary collection anyway. (Sunshine)

It seems whenever someone has a good idea like this, other people simply can't wait to rob them.

A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed, Sir, if lawyer's hand is feed, Sir, he steals your whole estate.

When the steed is stolen, shut the stable door.

This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

There are several reasons why niggers should oppose it. One reason is that the Qur-an forbids Muslims to drink intoxicating drinks, whereas most niggers like to get drunk. It says also that thieves should have their hands cut off. How many niggers would be left with hands? Christianity, the one and only true religion

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits ' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge.

With great difficulty we hunted the dog-banditti into their caves of the city, and bribed them into giving back their victim. Money was the least thing to think of in such case; I would have given a thousand pounds if I had had them in my hand. The audacity of the wretched men was marvellous. They said that they had been 'about stealing Flush these two years,' and warned us plainly to take care of him for the future.

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.

My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.

who would mark a sweater, steal a bra, take one shoe?

for in eating of the forbidden fruit our first parents committed an act of theft. Is it not then something more than a coincidence that we find a "thief" (yea, two thieves) connected with the second Tree also?

I've never been robbed in person, but I've gotten my car broken into a couple of times.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.