Quotes with steal

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  • Alexander Pope Most authors steal their works, or buy.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bryan Waller Proctor Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.
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  • Al Neuharth Never hesitate to steal a good idea.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • William Shakespeare O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Carine Roitfeld One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Barry McGuire So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Dylan Steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and they make you king.
    Sweetheart Like You
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • David Gemmell Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.
    Stormrider (2002) 5
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Juvenal The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Anatole France The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
    Original: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Gregory Nunn The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Black Hawk The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal. An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
    In: Biography and History of the Indians of North America Surrender speech in 1832
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  • William S. Burroughs They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Branch Rickey Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Josh Billings To enjoy a good reputation give publicly, and steal privately.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Tacitus To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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