Thieves Quotes

The white man is in the Black Hills just like maggots, and I want you to get them out just as quick as you can. The chief of all thieves [General Custer] made a road into the Black Hills last summer, and I want the Great Father to pay the damages for what Custer has done.

– Baptiste Good

Sioux chief. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown. Chapter 12.

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.

– Jimmy Breslin

My favorite movie ever is ‘Bicycle Thieves.’

– Jennifer Morrison

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

– Jean Genet

Vittorio De Sica famously made ‘Bicycle Thieves’; that’s the film of his everybody knows.

– Beeban Kidron

I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.

– Benigno Aquino III

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven.

– The Bible

Matthew 6:19-20

It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

– The Bible

Matthew 21:13

Friends are thieves of time.

– Francis Bacon

I like playing thieves.

– Pierce Brosnan

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

– Diogenes

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

– George Herbert

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

– John McCarthy

Jealousy is a dog’s bark which attracts thieves.

– Karl Kraus

Thieves must sit in prison.

– Vladimir Putin