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Quotes About Thieves

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.
~ Lao Tzu
There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.
~ Peter O'Toole
Even the two thieves crucified at either side of Jesus are no exception to universal contagion: they too imitate the crowd; like it they shout insults at Jesus.
~ Rene Girard
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
~ Richard Armey
Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos.
~ Rick Riordan
Louis said: "Dismas?" Ragna said: "That was the name of one of the thieves crucified with Jesus." "I know that," said Louis heavily, and Ragna told herself not to be so clever. Aldred said: "This Dismas also steals, especially food.
~ Ken Follett
Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.
~ William Shakespeare
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
~ William Shakespeare
Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, land-thieves and water-thieves.
~ William Shakespeare
The prison up in Rahway is maybe my least favorite place on Earth, with the possible exception of Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Actually, the two places remind me of each other. For starters, they're both enormous, often overcrowded, and serve mediocre food. Rahway houses murderers and thieves, the lowest of the low, worthy of society's scorn and revenge. The stadium in Philadelphia houses the Philadelphia Eagles. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
~ David Rosenfelt
Earnshaw is quite a famous name, thanks to Miss Brontë . I did not realise there were Earnshaws in this country." Mrs. Earnshaw gave a sharp nod. "Aye. And Heathcliffs and Eyres, as well. Proper little thieves, those Brontë girls.
~ Deanna Raybourn
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
~ Jean Genet
When I got to the street, I walked boldly. But I was always accompanied by an agonizing thought: the fear that honest people may be thieves who have chosen a cleverer and safer way of stealing.
~ Jean Genet
She knows how dangerous it is to trust anyone on La Bestia. There are thugs and rapists and thieves and narcos hidden in the ranks of la policía in every town, but it's not only the police who deserve their suspicion. It's every single person they meet—shopkeepers, food vendors, humanitarians, children, priests, even their fellow migrants.
~ Jeanine Cummins
The Bank Robbers Mr
~ Jeff Brown
Like his adversaries back in Wichita and Dodge, many hailed from Texas. But these weren't drovers intent on a little wild fun. They dealt in cattle, too, but instead of herding them, they stole them. For that they acquired a generic nickname that eventually evolved into a complimentary description, but one that in 1880 was intended as a slur, a means of identifying men so low and violent that no evil act was considered beneath them: Cowboys.
~ Jeff Guinn
You don't know this, 'cause you're too young," came the usual lecture, "but the politicians run all the big scams. Government's the thief of all time. That's why it tries so hard to catch thieves - it doesn't like the competition
~ Jeff Vandermeer
In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There are a lot of reasons people come to Las Vegas. Some come because they want to get rich. Some come because they want to get married. Some want to get lost, and others found. Some are running to. Some are running from. It had always seemed to Kat that Vegas was a town where almost everyone was hoping to get something for nothing - an entire city of thieves.
~ Ally Carter
H?rs?zlar çok ÅŸey istememelidir; bu ironik ama gerçektir. Yürüyerek kaçamayaca??n bir yerde asla durma. Geride b?rakamayaca??n bir ÅŸeye asla sahip olma. (syf. 28)
~ Ally Carter
Confucius (as the barbarians call him) also taught that, "When the government is honest, the people will learn honesty by example; when the government is crooked, the people will learn to be thieves also.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people you care about.
~ Kim Harrison
Money drives the world, but when everything falls apart to leave the underpinnings of our life bare to the scrutiny of critics and thieves, the only thing remaining, the only thing that can't be taken away, is the love you hold for the people
~ Kim Harrison
I have been safe from molestation for many years, because I was poor and possessed nothing that anyone else could envy. But if you make me rich and prosperous I shall at once become the prey of thieves and marauders and probably will lose my life in the attempt to protect my fortune.
~ L. Frank Baum