THIEF

Related Subjects: Crime, Honesty

1. 'Twas a thief that said the last kind word to Christ:
   Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.—BROWNING, The Ring and the Book
   

2. Small thieves be in towers fastened to wooden blocks; big ones strut about in gold and silver.—CATO THE CENSOR
   

3. When a felon's not engaged in his employment,
   Or maturing his felonious little plans,
   His capacity for innocent enjoyment
   Is just as great as any honest man's.—W. S. GILBERT, The Pirates of Penzance
   

4. A thief passes for a gentleman, when stealing has made him rich.—Proverb
   

5. He that finds a thing steals it if he endeavors not to restore it.—Proverb
   

6. The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief.—Proverb
   

7. The great thieves punish the little ones.—Proverb
   

8. Save a thief from the gallows, and he'll be the first shall cut your throat.—Proverb
   

9. Set a thief to catch a thief.—Proverb
   

10. It is a shame to steal, but a worse to carry home.—Proverb
    

11. All are not thieves that dogs bark at.—Proverb
    

12. Rob me the exchequer.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

13. Every true man's apparel fits your thief.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
    

14. Ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

15. Flat burglary as ever was committed.—SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
    

16. The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

17. I'll example you with thievery:
    The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
    Rob's the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
    Arid her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
    The sea's a thief whose liquid surge resolves
    The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
    That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
    From general excrement, each thing's a thief.—SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens