Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.

In California, thieves have three choices: They can go to prison, Sacramento, or Washington D.C.

My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers.

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

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

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

Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.

I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.

Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.

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

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

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

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

When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

On this earth everyone has his cross. But we must act in such a way that we be not the bad, but good thief.

Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

Let me tell you something about my family. We're as thick as thieves and we protect each other 'til the end.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

That's why so many stars are making pictures in Europe today. The tax guys are making thieves out of everybody.

The stupid thief wears the sheep bell around his neck! Such stupidity of the bad is always good for the society!

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

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

I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves.

When you're an actor, you get your ideas from everywhere - even from someone on the street. We're total thieves!

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

Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

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

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

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

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

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

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

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

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