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Thieves Quotes

We’ve collected the best Thieves Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Hunter S. Thompson, Beeban Kidron, Francis Bacon, Alex Higgins, Arunima Sinha. Use them as an inspiration.

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In a closed society where everybody‘s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
2
Vittorio De Sica famously madeBicycle Thieves’; that’s the film of his everybody knows.
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Friends are thieves of time.
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The tobacco companies and snooker were as thick as thieves.
Alex Higgins
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I have seen hard times in my life. I lost my foot and was badly injured after a gang of thieves threw me out of the running train. I laid down on the tracks for hours and later was hospitalised. I could have failed and died.
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Bald guys have been playing the bad guy for a long time, whether it’s pirates, thieves, murderers, or whatnot, so the deck is a little bit stacked against you in that regard.
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The only people who steal are thieves, and that’s a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will… return the benefit and reciprocate.
8
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
9
I remember, when Paul Collingwood first came into the dressing room, we did everything together. We practised together, trained together, had dinner together; we batted together and did well in games together – we were thick as thieves. When he got established, he just binned me.
10
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
11
I have seen hard times in my life. I lost my foot and was badly injured after a gang of thieves threw me out of the running train. I laid down on the tracks for hours and later was hospitalised. I could have failed and died.
12
War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
13
Vittorio De Sica famously madeBicycle Thieves’; that’s the film of his everybody knows.
14
The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing’s more disgusting than a guy who steals another person’s ideas and tries to claim them as his own.
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The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing’s more disgusting than a guy who steals another person’s ideas and tries to claim them as his own.
16
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
17
I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we’ve met a few times. I think he’s amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he’s made mistakes. He’s cool.
Cheryl Cole
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I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.
Alexei Navalny
20
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton Oursler
21
Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.
22
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other‘s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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I am more forgiving because I realize that all of our family historiesdefinitely mine – its populated with thieves and liars and incompetent people who werent bad people and who Im not ashamed of, but who are my family.
24
These thieves defend themselves by saying, ‘I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.’ Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
25
In a closed society where everybody‘s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Everyone knows we are thick as thieves. We’re very close and we respect each other. Of course, Salman has achieved far more, and we’re really happy with that. As long as we keep doing whatever we like, it doesn’t bother us.
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Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
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I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It’s cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victimshomes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.
30
I have a younger brother, who’s a year younger than me and we are thick as thieves.
31
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Brent Spiner
32
All my cousins steal things. They’re just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
33
God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.
35
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other‘s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
36
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet
37
You know, Castle‘s the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that’s a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That’s the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
38
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes
39
People warned us off lots of countries. Someone would say, for instance, ‘Stay away from Sudan. It’s full of thieves.’ And we’d say, ‘Have you been there then?’ ‘Er, no.’
40
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
41
I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
Al Lewis
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
43
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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Friends are thieves of time.
46
Thieves sell to unscrupulous merchants who pay hundreds of dollars for phones – no questions asked – and then ‘jailbreak’ them. They unlock the units, erase their data, reprogram them, and put them up for resale.
47
In my opinion, there’s nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.
48
I think people need housing. And there’s empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!
Al Lewis
49
That’s why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
Bud Abbott
50
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet
51
I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It’s cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victimshomes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.
52
That’s why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.
Bud Abbott
53
My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
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My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.
55
When you’re an actor, you get your ideas from everywhereeven from someone on the street. We’re total thieves!
56
What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don’t take kindly to thieves in Africa.
Akon
57
By the time we enter this work world and we’re breadwinners, we enter a world that’s just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers – a deception epidemic.
58
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler
59
I am more forgiving because I realize that all of our family historiesdefinitely mine – its populated with thieves and liars and incompetent people who werent bad people and who Im not ashamed of, but who are my family.
60
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month‘s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
61
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
62
People warned us off lots of countries. Someone would say, for instance, ‘Stay away from Sudan. It’s full of thieves.’ And we’d say, ‘Have you been there then?’ ‘Er, no.’
63
Vast databases of names and personal information, sold to thieves by large publicly traded companies, have put almost anyone within reach of fraudulent telemarketers.
64
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler
65
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney
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The Americans may think they have ‘liberatedBaghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves – they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty – seem to have a different idea what liberation means.
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Thieves must sit in prison.
Vladimir Putin
68
The Americans may think they have ‘liberatedBaghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves – they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty – seem to have a different idea what liberation means.
69
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
70
I remember, when Paul Collingwood first came into the dressing room, we did everything together. We practised together, trained together, had dinner together; we batted together and did well in games together – we were thick as thieves. When he got established, he just binned me.
71
All my cousins steal things. They’re just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.
72
Don’t worry, don’t worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves – and now look at them. It’s just a matter of time.
Meyer Lansky
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Thieves don’t usually make good therapists.
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War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
75
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
76
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month‘s rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
77
In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don’t know there’s another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.
78
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed.
Alexei Navalny
79
When I saw that Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion, I was dumbfounded! Why would Google get into bed with thieves? They’ve built a huge audience on the backs of copyright holders – and then they say I have to monitor them?
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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?
81
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
82
Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
83
By the time we enter this work world and we’re breadwinners, we enter a world that’s just cluttered with spam, fake, digital friends, partisan media, ingenious identity thieves, world-class Ponzi schemers – a deception epidemic.
84
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
85
I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we’ve met a few times. I think he’s amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he’s made mistakes. He’s cool.
Cheryl Cole
86
I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.
87
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
88
My favorite movie ever is ‘Bicycle Thieves.’
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In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
90
You know, Castle‘s the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that’s a connection for him. He remains connected to the people that he meets. That’s the kind of guy he is, be they criminals, gangster rappers, mafia guys, art thieves, whoever it is, he nurtures those relationships.
91
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
92
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Pablo Casals
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I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.
94
The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.
Alexei Navalny
95
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
96
In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don’t know there’s another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.
97
My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.
Brent Spiner
98
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
99
In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.