Quotes About Thievery

I've got kids that enjoy stealing. I've got kids that don't think about stealing one way or the other, and I've got kids that just tolerate stealing because they know they've got nothing else to do. But nobody--and I mean nobody --has ever been hungry for it like this boy. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing. He...steals too much .

A wise thief, whether as a state, or figure picks and steals precious and valuable things, to execute civilization in its scope where that exists and enjoys, ignoring the truth.

The stolen ideas, words, and quotes do not make you a unique author. You are only a thief of the literature, and pseudo-intellectual.

It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell.

People love gentle larceny.

she wasn't so much a writer as a thief.

Jesper," Hal said, "find a food stall and get a pie or a sausage for Ulf. Buy it. Don't steal it," he added. Jesper looked offended, but said nothing. In fact, he had been planning to "liberate" a pie for Ulf and save some money. He didn't consider taking food to be stealing. Everybody did that, he thought. He just did it better than most.

Bonham walked down the line with a stack of sixpences and passed them out like a priest of mammon at unholy communion. Hands flashed like the tongues of lizards, deftly trousering the loot.

Ali Baba destroyed a dream!!!

I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

Magnetyzm barw zmuszaÅ' go do kradzenia obrazów.

Even in the matter of stealing we must think of our own beam before our neighbour's mote. It is not easy to be honest. There is many a thief who is less of a thief than many a respectable member of society.

I'll wager I would have screwed things up regardless. But. . .can you imagine those poor bastards grappling their prey, leaping over the rails, swords in hand, screaming, 'Your cats! Give us all your gods-damned cats!

If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.

Congratulations! We're reverse burglars, here to give you fifty gold solari!

The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—" "—is Locke Lamora—

That sounds dangerous,'said Jean. 'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.' 'We?' 'We.

If what Locke is doing were larking about, corpses could get jobs as acrobats.

he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread

A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is—as a general thing. In most countries they're awful high up in the nobility—dukes and such.

It's a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery

After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through. ***TWO QUESTIONS*** Would the gates shut behind her? Or would they have the goodwill to let her back out? As Liesel would discover, a good thief requires many things. Stealth. Nerve. Speed. More important than any of those things, however, was one final requirement. Luck. Actually. Forget the ten minutes. The gates open now.

When she made it down to Munich Street, the book thief swerved in and out of the umbrellaed men and women—a rain-cloaked girl who made her way without shame from one garbage can to another.

Another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Lisa Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.