Quotes About Robbers

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Modave noted that the further away you went from Calcutta, the worse the situation became: 'A European visiting the upper parts of the Ganges finds mere robbers in charge of Company affairs, who think nothing of committing the most atrocious acts of tyranny, or subaltern thieves whose despicable villainy dishonours the British nation, whose principles of honour and humanity they seem totally to have rejected

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

His cousit. Roland, who followed him with the rear of his army, in his return was set upon in the Pyrenean mountains by a troop of Gascon robbers, and slain; and is the famous hero of numberless old French romances and songs

And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?

You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.

You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.

We were assholes and opportunists and sociopaths, a lot of us. We thought we were on the right side of things. But what did it mean that our clients resembled ghouls and grave robbers? I knew their families, or photos of their families

Thus do the more cautious of travellers act. The road is said to be beset by robbers. The traveller will not venture alone, but awaits the companionship on the road of an ambassador, a quaestor or a proconsul. To him he attaches himself and thus passes by in safety. So doth the wise man in the world.

I didn't like the looks of those other grave robbers. You were the first women who's noticed me in years and I thought you were beautiful." "Are you flirting?" "If I were alive, perhaps," he replied, "but as it is, I don't think we could be more than friends.

We are at war with the wicked: rapists, murderers, home-invaders, and robbers. There are no bystanders - only victims.

If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least . . . abstain from robbing and murdering one another.

I regarded the pumpkin thief's worst nightmare: splotchy coat, tattered ears, sleeping death rattle. "He gums robbers to death?" I asked. "What if they bring biscuits?

The priests were deferential, siding with Rome, and those who opposed them were said to be robbers and thugs, my father and his friends among

But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind. This

If the heart is vigilant (Song 5.2), then sleep is nothing for the body; this is like a person who is almost snoring and, when he hears robbers breaking in, does everything possible to escape them. Thus, if we are able to understand, we shall see that we are exactly like this.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.

Texas "the ark of safety to swindlers, gamblers, robbers and rogues

I always feel like any criminal who doesn't have a mask on is dumb: particularly the ones who don't realize that all mini-marts have cameras. I find that so hilarious. Or bank robbers without a mask. You're like, 'Have you seen no movies?'

he was a man of his hands, and most were, he might decide to wait and plan for the day when he could raid the robbers in his turn, and get his revenge illegally with interest. Or he could decide on pursuit, across the frontier if necessary. This was a strictly legal, almost a hallowed process, known by the descriptive name of "hot trod".

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.