A Quote by Francis Bacon

Opportunity makes a thief.

Francis Bacon

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Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

Seneca the Younger

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

Terry Pratchett

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

William Shakespeare

As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.

Octavia Spencer

Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

Jim Rohn

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!

Spencer W. Kimball

Oppurtunity Makes the Thief

Steig Larsson

The sun is a thief: she lures the sea and robs it. The moon is a thief: he steals his silvery light from the sun. The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.

Vladimir Nabokov

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Pearl S. Buck

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

Megan Whalen Turner

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.

Walter E. Williams

Man is a thief, an impudent thief! He steals honey from bees, eggs from chickens, milk from cows and life from the God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

William Saroyan

Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.

William Shakespeare

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.