| 22 Thieving Quotes
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“'Tis bad enough in man or woman
To steal a goose from off a common;
But surely he's without excuse
Who steals a common from the goose.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Epigram, in Carey's "Commonplace Book of Epigrams"
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“Who steals a bugle-horn, a ring, a steed,
Or such like worthless thing, has some discretion;
'Tis petty larceny: not such his deed
Who robs us of our fame, our best possession.”
Francesco Berni Quotes Source: Orlando Innamorata (canto LV)
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“For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city,
To call passengers who go right on their ways:
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. IX, v. 14-17)
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“To keep my hands from picking and stealing.”
Bible Quotes Source: Proverbs (ch. IX, v. 14-17)
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“No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I, l. 273)
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“--To live
On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
This is to be a trickster; and to filch
Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
Plain folks call "Theft."”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Richelieu (act I, sc. 2)
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“Kill a man's family, and he may brook it,
But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. 79)
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“Stolen sweets are best.”
Colley Cibber Quotes Source: Rival Fools (act I)
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“The Frier preached against stealing, and had a goose in his
sleeve.
[The Friar preached against stealing, and had a goose in his
sleeve.]”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“In vain we call old notions fudge
And bend our conscience to our dealing.
The Ten Commandments will not budge
And stealing will continue stealing.”
Motto Quotes Source: of the American Copyright League
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“Stolen sweets are always sweeter:
Stolen kisses much completer;
Stolen looks are nice in chapels:
Stolen, stolen be your apples.”
Thomas Randolph Quotes Source: Song of Fairies
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“O villain, thou hast stol'n both mine office and my name!
The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Comedy of Errors (Dromio of Ephesus at III, i)
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“A murderer and a villain,
A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
Of your precedent lord, a vice of kings,
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole
And put it in his pocket--”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv)
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“Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemned to have an itching palm,
To sell and mart your offices for gold
To undeservers.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Julius Caesar (Brutus at IV, iii)
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“A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at II, ii)
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“Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't,
Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n
From gen'ral excrement.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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“Yet thanks I must you con
That you are thieves professed, that you work not
In holier shapes; for there is boundless theft
In limited professions.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at IV, iii)
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“The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief,
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Duke of Venice at I, iii)
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“He that is robbed, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robbed at all.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at III, iii)
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“Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing.
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii)
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“Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes Source: Maxims
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“Well, well, be it so, thou strongest their of all,
For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: The Foresters (act III, sc. 1)
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