Burglars Quotes:

Actors and burglars work better at night.

- Cedric Hardwicke

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Night, Actors, Burglars

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: May, Honest, Burglars

Don't throw a baby at anything - even a burglar.

- Eugene Mirman

topic: Baby, Burglars

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.

- Elias Canetti

topic: Darkness, Unexpected, Crime, Burglars, Clutch

Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

- James Chiles

topic: Skins, Way, Vaults, Burglars, Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "Tremendous trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.

topic: Morning, Night, Up Early, Burglars, Misers

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

- O. Henry

topic: Time, Art, Burglars

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

- Miles Kington

topic: Night, Musician, Jazz, Astronomers, Burglars

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

- Robin Williams

topic: Funny, Inspiration, Gay, Burglars, Being Gay

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

topic: Philosophical, Men, Criminals, Burglars

There's more than one way to be a girl

- Lauren Faust

topic: Girl, Censorship In Books, Censoring Books, Burglars, Banned Books

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Running, Book, People, Burglars, One Way

There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing

- The Notorious B.I.G.

topic: Flower, Rap, Hip Hop, Burglars

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

- Rita Coolidge

topic: Opportunity, Two, Ties, Burglars, Opportunity Knocking

Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

- L. Neil Smith

topic: Gun, Muggers, Never Forget, Burglars

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Moon, Vocabulary, Owl, Burglars, Drawbacks

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

- Karl Kraus

topic: Lying, Tools, Merit, Burglars

The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years and years, Butcher's Moon is the ultimate Parker novel, best read as an installment in the series as a whole but comprehensible and wholly satisfying on its own.

- Terry Teachout

topic: Moon, Years, Butchers, Burglars

I have wished you dead and myself dead. How could it be otherwise. I have broken into you like a burglar. And you've set your dogs on me. And a pile of broken sticks. A child could kick. I have climbed you like a monument, gasoing, For the exercise and the view, And leaned over the railing at the top... Strong and warm, the summer wind.

- Alicia Ostriker

topic: Summer, Dog, Strong, Burglars, Summer Wind

If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog.

- Bill Moyers

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Bark, Basements, Supposed To Be, Burglars

Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

- Grenville Kleiser

topic: House, Mind, Assassins, Burglars

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

- Werner Herzog

topic: Night, Careers, Steps, Burglars

Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Uplifting, Book, Burglars, Lanterns

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

- George Orwell

topic: Character, Class, Ordinary, Burglars, Valet

Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

- Allen Carr

source: Allen Carr (2009). “Easy Way to Control Alcohol”, p.80, Arcturus Publishing

topic: Men, Order, Alarms, Modern Man, Burglars

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

- Ron Dart

topic: Media, Cynical, Political, Burglars, American Media

Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in.

- Sam Ewing

topic: Doors, Cities, House, Burglars, Tenants

If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

- G. Gordon Liddy

topic: Government, Host, Shows, Burglars, Congressman

I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell my friend, in which they became serial killers and burglars. She told her mother, who then told mine.

- Nina Bawden

source: Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2006.

topic: Mother, Serial Killer, Stories, Burglars, Made Up Stories

I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.

- Tre Cool

topic: People, Burglars

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

- Hesketh Pearson

topic: God, Believe, Men, Burglars

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

- David Eddings

topic: Moving, Mind, Stories, Chaucer, Middle English

Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.51, Routledge

topic: Philosophy, Pirate, Would Be, Burglars

claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Land, Practice, Creating, Removal, Burglars

You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Sleep, House, Greed, Burglars

Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

- Charles Portis

topic: Wall, Home, Garden, Broken Glass, Burglars

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

- Gough Whitlam

topic: Political, Firsts, First Time, Burglars, Caretakers

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

- Mike Gorman

topic: Doors, Class, Stories, Burglars, Front Doors

"Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.

- Zygmunt Bauman

topic: Numbers, Knowing, People, Burglars, Humiliated

...Registering guns is like sending a list of your household valuables to a burglars' guild. Why invite - guarantee - a visit.?

- Kenneth W. Royce

topic: Gun, Guarantees, Lists, Burglars, Guilds

To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em.

- Ted Nugent

source: "Ted Nugent’s Racist Spectacle at Texas Governor’s Inaugural Ball", www.motherjones.com. January 19, 2007.

topic: Children, Gun, Guy, Burglars, Court Cases

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.

- Ross Macdonald

source: Ross Macdonald (1967). “Archer in Hollywood: three exciting novels: The moving target, The way some people die [and] The barbarous coast”

topic: Broken, Wish, Locks, Burglars, Fingerprints

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

topic: God, Men, Trying, Burglars

A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.

- Roja Dove

topic: Memories, Cat, Keys, Burglars

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

topic: Funny, Lying, Humor, Burglars, Financiers

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Lying, Voice, Dollars, Burglars, Million Dollars

What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

topic: Believe, Effort, Political, Burglars, Good Politicians

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

- Simon Cowell

topic: Rights, Apples, Worry, Pinching, Burglars

the Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.

- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

source: "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 535, 1991.

topic: Past, Reputation, Human Rights, Burglars, Saudis

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

- W. S. Gilbert

topic: Cutting, Loss, Village, Burglars, Enterprising