“Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold”
William Shakespeare
“I was new in the game and like all young thieves thought I had a license to steal. It didn't last.”
William S. Burroughs
“In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?”
Kahlil Gibran
“It is when pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.”
William Bolitho
“Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.”
John Cheever
“The big thieves hang the little ones”
Czech Proverb