Thief

Famous quotes containing the word thief:

    You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    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.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)