Top 25 Burglar Quotes

TacOps is a unit which breaks into homes and offices to plant bugging devices. They get into mafia hangouts, they go into embassies, they go into terrorist hangouts, and they describe themselves as court-sanctioned burglars.

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it’s mine.

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

It takes about seventy-five pages for a Parker reference – from ‘The Score,’ specifically – to show up in Geoff Manaugh’s ‘A Burglar’s Guide to the City.’

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it’s mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10.

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

I sold burglar alarms for four weeks, which wasn’t very long, but it was long enough.

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

If I heard a noise at night, I’d think there was a burglar sneaking around; the first thing I’d do was check on my guitar.

Authors don’t tend to stay with the same agents and editors over their entire lifetimes, but Grafton worked with Marian Wood, her editor at Putnam, from Kinsey’s first outing, and signed with Molly Friedrich, still her literary agent, with the publication of ‘B Is for Burglar.’

I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar’s tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too late.

One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, ‘Oh my God, did they steal everything?’ I was like, ‘No, it was like that!’

‘A Burglar’s Guide to the City’ makes disparate connections seem obvious in hindsight, and my worldview is altered a little bit more, and far for the better, as a result. We’ll never know, but I suspect Donald Westlake would have enjoyed it – and perhaps been a little unsettled by it, too.

I’m calling myself ‘The Doodler,’ and with the simple addition of a small burglar’s mask, I achieve utter anonymity.

Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.

Things aren’t right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon’s own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it’s all too clear the horror of what went on.

There have been prank shows that have been really elaborate, setting up fake car accidents and burglars. For us, we wanted to strip it down completely, didn’t want to do anything that someone else couldn’t do – a lot like the Jerky Boys.

Burglars know there’s more than one way to skin a vault.

If you’re going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the fresh stuff from the ice box, lock the windows and doors, and phone the cops and tell them how long you’ll be gone so they’ll keep an eye out for burglars.