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Thieves, spies and other wise guys are working everywhere ... including in branches of the U.S. government. — Sherry Morris

That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. — Alan Rickman

Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart. — Pink

Thieves always count their change! — Jason P. Goodman

French pedicures make your toes look like fingers. You look grabby. French pedicures are for man thieves. — Helen Ellis

Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity! — Spencer W. Kimball

The investment world nevertheless has enough liars, cheaters, and thieves to keep Satan's check-in clerks frantically busy for decades to come. — Benjamin Graham

A man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat — E. E. Cummings

APPENDIX 4 THE THIEVES' LANGUAGE IN OLIVER TWIST — Charles Dickens

Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever. — William Shakespeare

In a kingdom of thieves, the ways of an honest man will always be a crime. — Dennis Adonis

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. — Lord Chesterfield

The great thieves lead away the little thief. — Diogenes

We are all descendants of murderers and thieves. — Amanda Sledz

Do you not like the fruit bits? That's the best part. Gansey directed this last statement to Blue, who gave him her mostly empty yogurt cup. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief. — Jackson Pollock

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught — Buddy Rich

No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. — Mary Harris Jones

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience. — William Shakespeare

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

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves? — Anthony Marais

All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist. — Michael Stutz

Guilt is the thief of life. — Anthony Hopkins

All politicians are said to be thieves but all thieves are not politicians which implies that some thieves do have a conscience. — Amit Abraham

Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him. — Karl Kraus

Common thieves like Ludlow were simply another London — Deborah J. Swiss

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious. — Louis L'Amour

There is no honour among thieves. — American Proverb.

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind. — Jon Foreman

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Most of our lives are crucified between two thieves, yesterday and tomorrow. We never live today. But the time to live is now. It is today. — W. Oscar Thompson

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. — William Cowper

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series. — James Belushi

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear. — Laozi

Many thieves. One Greywaren. — Maggie Stiefvater

Who would be a poor man, a beggar man, a thief, if he held a rich man in his hand? — Jethro Tull

No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us... — Joseph Conrad

It is opportunity that makes the thief. — Seneca The Younger

Economy is the thief of time. — Ethel Mumford

If we could renounce our artful contrivances and discard our (scheming for) gain, there would be no thieves nor robbers. — Lao-Tzu

For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert. — Edna O'Brien

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

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. — William Shakespeare

I've never played a master thief. And I think I am one. — Vincent D'Onofrio

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. — Hunter S. Thompson

It is surprising how many great men started out as horse thieves. — P.J. Sullivan

Art thieves steal more than beautiful objects; they steal memories and identities. They steal history. — Robert K. Wittman

not to prize articles which are difficult to procure is the way to keep them from becoming thieves; — Lao-Tzu

I thought about things stolen from me. I thought about the thieves I had known. — T. Greenwood

For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept — Sigmund Brouwer

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there. — Ozzy Osbourne

You can't trust even thieves these days. — John Speed

Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid. — C. JoyBell C.

You can't steal from thieves. — Rupert Dreyfus

Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos. — Rick Riordan

Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. — G.K. Chesterton

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear. — Khalil Gibran

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing. — Rod Parsley

Better locks just means better burglars. — Marty Rubin

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar. — Raymond Carver

If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This isn't a job for soldiers and spies. It's a job for thugs and thieves. — Leigh Bardugo

Boughs are daily rifled By the gusty thieves, And the book of Nature Getteth short of leaves. — Thomas Hood

Look, she doesn't like pork," [Blue] said. "Take her someplace they use lots of butter. And don't ever say the word chuckle around her. She hates it. — Maggie Stiefvater

We like to keep what's our own to keep, especially from little thieves with little fingers and big mouths. — R.A. Salvatore

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. — Megan Whalen Turner

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. — Angelika Rust

Living with thieves, it would be a matter of moments before they picked the lock, but she certainly was not going to make it easy for them. — M.L. Chesley

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief. — Dwight L. Moody

Someone has said that people live their lives crucified between two thieves - the regrets of yesterday and the anxieties of tomorrow. — Erwin W. Lutzer

Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows. — Beeban Kidron

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all. — Patrick Rothfuss

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

Friends are thieves of time — Sajjad Ali Noor

Only thieves and children run. — Tracy Chevalier

There is an old saying, that there is honour amongst thieves, and so it often proves. — Frederick Marryat

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. — Robert Browning

[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still. — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves. — William Shakespeare

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians. — Peter O'Toole

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores — Patrick Rothfuss

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. — Seneca The Younger

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. — Henry David Thoreau

Comparison is the thief of all joy. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship makes thieves of us all — Patti Smith

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves. — K. Martin Beckner

It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old. — Maggie Stiefvater

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We covet what is guarded; the very care invokes the thief. Few love what they may have. — Ovid

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. — Jean Genet

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life. — Elizabeth Lesser

Goodie-goodies are the thieves of virtue. — Laozi

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided. — Rod Stewart

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon

I'm a thief. I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers. — J. B. Smoove

If I am a thief, it's because of private property. — Facundo Cabral

Don't listen to the rumors...thieves of the truth. — Nancy Glynn