Top 289 Thieves Quotes & Sayings

Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

We're living in a den of thieves

Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

My favorite movie ever is 'Bicycle Thieves.'

In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.

My favorite movie ever is Bicycle Thieves.

We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.

The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

When people told me that 'Polladhavan' was a remake of 'Bicycle Thieves,' I wanted to laugh because comparing 'Polladhavan' to 'Bicycle Thieves' is a disgrace to the latter.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

We are all thieves; we are all thieves; we have taken the scriptures in words, and know nothing of them in ourselves.

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK.

Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue.

Friends are thieves of time.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

To many in the global community, American business - especially our financial institutions - are seen as a bunch of thieves, and as the saying goes, 'There's no honor among thieves.'

Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates... Such, however, is the illusion of antiquity and wealth, that decent and dignified men now existing, boast their descent from these filthy thieves, who showed a far juster conviction of their own merits, by assuming for their types the swine, goat, jackal, leopard, wolf, and snake, which they severally resembled.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.

Thieves don't usually make good therapists.

Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves.

I’d rather have the thieves than the neighbors - the thieves don't impose. Thieves just want your things, neighbors want your time.

I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . . . "Do not despair: one of the thieves was saved; do not presume: one of the thieves was damned." That sentence had a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

I like playing thieves.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.