Top 66 Thief Quotes

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

It was my dad who got me into football. One day, he surprised me playing in the garage. He thought I was a thief. I always played football when I was a kid.

I know a baseball star who wouldn’t report the theft of his wife’s credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Ten comics can say the same joke, and I’m the one who gets called a thief.

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

I was lucky because when I’d done ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,’ I had to have extensive weapons training.

‘Copper’ is my first period piece. It’s funny because I’ve been doing a lot of episodes of ‘Elementary’ with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; they keep bringing me back on the show, and so I go from being an outstanding black doctor to being a kind of hood, ex-car thief who went through rehab in ‘Elementary.’

You call my candidate a horse thief, and I call yours a lunatic, and we both of us know it’s just till election day. It’s an American custom, like eating corn on the cob. And, afterwards, we settle down quite peaceably and agree we’ve got a pretty good country – until next election.

I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.

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

I’m so excited about ‘Identity Thief’. It’s such a good comedy, and I’m excited for people to go out and see it!

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.

I am what I am, but I’m not a thief. And I’m not scandalous.

The same actor plays the role of a thief and a police officer on-screen. It’s not fair to look for role models in them.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

When I wrote ‘The Shadow Thief,’ I had an obsession with Peter Pan. I get focused on things. In fact, I was an absolute horror to live with at that stage. I had a big fight with my mum because I wanted her to change the windows so Peter Pan could visit me.

Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes’ cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.

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

Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.

I loved ‘Dungeons & Dragons.’ Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

I’m in love with low-rated shows. That’s true of ‘Men of a Certain Age,’ ‘Thief,’ ‘Gideon’s Crossing.’ I fall in love with projects that are almost freighted with prestige.

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

Freedom is neither guaranteed nor automatic; not even in the United States. Left unguarded, it can slip away like a thief in the night.

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’

Opportunity makes a thief.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

I really love ‘Bicycle Thief.’ That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.

What I appreciate about Radiohead’s work – and it’s most evident in ‘Hail to the Thief’ – is how the juxtaposition of narratives on the band’s albums somehow creates a sense of wholeness.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

They’re mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

Often, I’m sitting opposite a client, and I’m thinking, ‘How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?’ And sometimes I don’t know. Really, it’s smarter to be a thief.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he’s a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous – deliciously so.

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

Any thief or criminal or robber who enters another country in order to steal should expect to be exposed to murder at any time. For the American forces to expect anything from me personally reflects a very narrow perception.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I don’t want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Big Thief is destined for greatness.

A selfish man is a thief.

Therefore, don’t let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw ‘A Thief in the Night’ on a 16 mm. print when I was in the eighth grade, and I got the whole scare speech from our pastors. ‘Do you want to be left here, left behind, for the Tribulation? If not, then come forward.’

George Harrison wanted to play the thief in ‘Holy Mountain.’

I’ve been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief – I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that’s what I want to do. I’m running away to an invented place.

There are some facets of Krishna, like his image as a butter thief, a lover and a make-up-loving deity, that people connect with. But there’s a lot about him that is unexplored.

In the case of ‘The Book Thief,’ my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started changing the stories when I began moulding the book.

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

I was lucky: I feel like I’ve written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to me, and that’s ‘The Book Thief.’

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

I think plenty of games – from ‘Thief’ to ‘Zelda’ – have shown that sneaking around can be fun.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser’s passion, not the thief s.

I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don’t consider myself a thief.

I left drama school to do ‘The Book Thief’ – it was a real trip going straight from school kind of right into it, but I feel like the momentum of being in school put me in a good mindset as far as going into it as a learning experience.

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

An athlete gets paid a lot of money. And someone who is after that, a thief, a mugger or someone who steals from people, they are taking a chance with the law that if they get caught, they are going to jail or face some other problem. In my case, you are going to get shot.

For ‘The Book Thief,’ I wanted only one outcome, and that was for the director to follow his own vision, just as I had.

Everything is new about ‘Siruthai.’ This is the first time I’m playing a dual role – a thief and a police officer!