Quotes About Thieves

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

OR. For night is the time for thieves, the light for truth.

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are the minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

But here's the thing: shepherds were despised. They couldn't keep the ceremonial laws while traveling about the hills, they were often regarded as thieves, and because they were considered unreliable, they were not permitted to give evidence in court. Yet this was whom God chose for his witnesses and entrusted with his good news.

WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

If a ruler suffers subjects to be ill-educated, and then punishes them for crimes they commit in their ignorance, what else can we conclude but that he first makes thieves and then punishes them!

Alliance - In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Wall street, n. a symbol of sin for every devil to rebuke. That wall street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in heaven

For a month we had been, I suppose, the thickest thieves in all London, and yet our intimacy was curiously incomplete.

My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Papa says curses are only stories cooked up to deter thieves. He says there are sixty-five million specimens in this place, and if you have the right teacher, each can be as interesting as the last.

Some people embrace their gifts with gratitude. Others have no use for them and can think only of overcoming their weaknesses. Only their defects interest and challenge them. Thus those who hate people may seek them out. Misanthropes often practice psychiatry. The shy become performers. Natural thieves look for positions of trust. The frightened make bold moves.

We were invaded today, Lord Malory." "By a bunch of ungodly thieves and sellers of sin," Reverend Biggs said most indignantly. Walter latched on to the word "ungodly," asking, "These are different from Godly thieves, I take it?" He was being sarcastic,but the good reverend took him seriously instead, answering stiffly, "Heathens usually are, m'lord.

I grant more: thieves and murderers and other evildoers are the instruments of divine providence, and the Lord himself uses these to carry out the judgments that he has determined with himself. Yet I deny that they can derive from this any excuse for their evil deeds. Why?

The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

Talking and discussing the rights, yours and ours, puts you and us, in the wave of judicial mirage for hoping equality and justice. As a bare reality, the United Nations cannot employ and enforce that under its veto sword, in the presence of civilized Ali Baba and hundreds of lawmakers-thieves.

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

A bunch of thieves goes to culprit chief who is himself responsible for the people's pain & grief and they do dramatic stiff protest and plead to him only to remove restrictions and give relief to common people. Once all drama of agitation got over and after a few weeks, ordinary mass got nothing, but those thugs got from him a brief case full of green leaf and prized position in politics

When a company's policy becomes policing the activities of employees, it catches only petty thieves but its profit goes majorly into the pockets of people probing or looting and not in the bank of the owner.

Nature works by subtle, secret means—man's invisible seed, spider bite, the viewless spores of madness and of death, rocks that are born in earth's unknown bowels, the silent stars a-creep across the sky—and we thieves copy her.

Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.