Steal

Famous quotes containing the word steal:

    “Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Duns at his lordship’s gate began to meet;
    And brickdust Moll had screamed through half the street.
    The turnkey now his flock returning sees,
    Duly let out a-nights to steal for fees:
    The watchful bailiffs take their silent stands,
    And schoolboys lag with satchels in their hands.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “You gonna let a john like that steal her away from you ‘cause he’s got a little more jack?”
    —James Gleason (1886–1959)