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Quotes About Thief

Seeing Tully was stung by the reference to ancient church canon long since abandoned, Kulgan softened his tone "No disrespect to you, Tully. But don't try to teach an old thief to steal. I know your order chops logic with the best of them, and that half your brother clerics fall into laughing fits when they hear those deadly serious young acolytes debate theological issues set aside a century ago. Besides which, isn't the legend of the lost art an Ishapian dogma?
~ Raymond E. Feist
Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
~ Kate Atkinson
Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
~ William Shakespeare
The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.
~ George Allen
An art thief is a man who takes pictures.
~ George Carlin
A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.
~ Gregory Maguire
As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did
~ Henny Youngman
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
~ Jose Marti
There's no thief like a bad movie.
~ Sam Ewing
A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught
~ Buddy Rich
A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.
~ William Shakespeare
You must be the most beautiful and sophisticated thief I have ever met. Secretly you stole my heart without my knowledge.
~ Debasish Mridha
All error dreads the light of the word, and fears more to be examined by that, than a thief does to be tried before a strict judge.
~ William Gurnall
Every life is its own story- not without a share of glory, and not without a share of grief. I lived like a hero at seventeen. At nineteen, I die like a thief.
~ David Elliott
Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and immediately assess them only in terms of what he could get for them in the market? Surely, he can only have been a thief.
~ David Graeber
The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.
~ John Cassian
Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
~ Oswald Chambers
Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.
~ Bill Johnson
Help her, " Peter pleaded. "Do something. You have ways. Your potions. Your medicines. Do something.
~ Brom, The Child Thief
Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
~ Peter O'Toole
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
~ Aristotle
I'm Kieran. You must be a hell of a thief because you stole my heart from across the room,
~ Jayde Scott
One buries treasure in the belief that it will be needed in the future. It is far better to act with charity and goodness. One who controls himself builds up hidden treasure that no thief can steal.
~ Richard Hooper