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Quotes About Thief

Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
~ Zoketsu Norman Fischer
If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night
~ Eamon de Valera
He looked like a naughty child who had managed to steal the moon and eat it.
~ George R.R. Martin
A thief was a thief, whether he stole a little or a lot.
~ George R.R. Martin
Show me a liar, and I will show thee a thief.
~ George Edward Herbert
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
~ William Shakespeare
New elements, she thought, pleased with the challenge. Roarke had been fiddling, adding some elements and upgrades. When she engaged in hand-to-hand with the second thief, she knew he'd fiddled with the programming with her in mind.
~ J.D. Robb
on the site you plan to hit, it's going to beef up security." "But we'd be looking for a killer. Not a thief.
~ J.D. Robb
Not only had the nefarious Candy Thief snatched her chocolate, he/she had taken the time and trouble to replace it with the actual item on the freaking menu. She had to respect that.
~ J.D. Robb
I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.
~ J. B. Smoove
A selfish man is a thief.
~ Jose Marti
no man prepar'd for it; no man consider'd it would come like a Thief in the night, exactly as it happens in the case of death.'74
~ Niall Ferguson
After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.
~ Christopher Pike
He had combined powerful variations of locate object and hold portal spells to ensure that his denizens could always follow wherever the tablet was taken. In effect, the locate object spell served as a beacon marking the tablet's location, and the hold portal spell prevented the thief from closing his escape route.
~ Troy Denning
There are three things you will learn from tonight: even the most powerful Thief has limitations, it pays to have friends in high places, and there are some things best left to magicians." - Cery
~ Trudi Canavan
The peculiarity of a language which is desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge.
~ Victor Hugo
Hope was a dangerous thief, stealing her todays for a tomorrow that would never come.
~ Kristin Harmel
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
~ L. Frank Baum
São apenas livros – disse a si mesmo. Apenas papel e tinta. Papel, tinta e anos. Papel, tinta, anos e seu sonho. Ele balançou a cabeça. O sonho estava em sua mente e em sua alma. Thyon podia roubar seus livros, mas não podia lhe roubar isso.
~ Laini Taylor
The blood of the thief, the pioneer and the marauder, the yearner and the usurper. She looks out at the desert and its dream of tranquility.
~ Lan Samantha Chang
Sé muy bien que la mujer es por su esencia y necesidad, una parásita, una aprovechadora, una ladrona.
~ Giovanni Papini
You wouldn't believe it,' Rauve said as his shadow fell across the stable entrance. 'All black like Lucifer the thief was. Fast as the Devil, too, whist-whist-whist, leaping, kicking. Still, I could've caught the bastard if I hadn't been protecting my lady love.' 'The Scots say he can't be caught,' Adric said. 'They say he's not of this world.' 'Well, if he's not of this world, then what does he need my silver for?
~ Glynnis Campbell
There is no thief worse than a bad book.
~ Italian proverb