Quotes About Thief

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love: now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

El Señor no retarda su promesa, según algunos la tienen por tardanza, sino que es paciente para con nosotros, no queriendo que ninguno perezca, sino que todos procedan al arrepentimiento. 10 † Pero el día del Señor vendrá como ladrón en la noche;e en el cual los cielos pasarán con grande estruendo, y los elementos ardiendo serán desHch, y la tierra y las obras que en ella hay serán quemadas.

Time is a thief. It steals our memory, our hopes, and our strength, leaving only the sense there's never enough of it.

The bread court does not deliberate, it punishes. It knows no mitigation, it needs no legal code. It is a law unto itself, because the hunger angel is also a thief who steals the brain. Bread justice has no prologue or epilogue, it is only here and now. Totally transparent, or totally mysterious. In any case, the violence meted out by bread justice is different from hungerless violence. You cannot approach the bread court with conventional morality.

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen. Then I go home and shave until my skin is as slick as any slickster's.

I am a good enough thief to steal a shadow from a tower," she told him. "I can steal back your heart.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,--she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

Kennedy: You mean it's not a matter of good deeds versus bad deeds, a kind of moral bookkeeping? Lewis: No indeed. Look at the thief on the cross. He made it to paradise even though his life's red ink certainly outweighed the black. Kennedy:

Where did this love come from? I don't know; it came to me like a thief in the night, and now I love her so much my heart is bursting with it.

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Junaid said: 'I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life.

The thief who has not been caught is a king.

El ladrón que no ha sido atrapado es un rey.

Valiente es el ladrón que lleva una lámpara en su mano.