Larceny Quotes:

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

- Robert Bork

source: Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Goods, Distribution, Larceny

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

- Paul Gallico

source: Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.165, Open Road Media

topic: Golf, Men, Humorous Golf, Larceny, Funny Golfing

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

- Ronald Reagan

source: Remarks on the Occasion of 83rd Birthday Gala, delivered 3 February 1994

topic: Leadership, Night, Ideas, Larceny

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Men, Investing, May, Larceny

The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

- John T. Flynn

source: John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

topic: Peace, Moving Forward, Destiny, Larceny, Always Moving

What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live very high off the work, invention, and creativity of very many others. It is the Grand Larceny of our particular time in history, the Grand Larceny in which a future of freedom which could have followed the collapse of feudalism was stolen from under our noses by a new bunch of bosses doing the same old things

- Karl Hess

topic: Creativity, Old Things, Boss, Larceny, Same Old Thing

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

- Gaylord Perry

topic: Differences, Larceny

The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men; that he rewarded the virtuous and punished the wicked, is gradually fading from the mind. We know that some of the worst men have what the world calls success. We know that some of the best men lie upon the straw of failure. We know that honesty goes hungry, while larceny sits at the banquet. We know that the vicious have every physical comfort, while the virtuous are often clad in rags.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

topic: Children, Honesty, Lying, Larceny, Children Of Men

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

- Arthur Baer

topic: Honesty, Heart, Player, Larceny

There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

topic: Eye, Law, Two, Larceny

Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.

- Richard Ney

topic: New York, Squares, Feet, Larceny, Stock Exchange

We are all pirates at heart. There is not one of us who hasn't had a little larceny in his soul. And which one of us wouldn't soar if God had thought there was merit in the idea? So, when we see one of those great widespread pirates soaring across the grain of sea winds we thrill, and we long, and, if we are honest, we curse that we must be men every day. Why not one day a bird! There's an idea, now, one day out of seven a pirate in the sky. What puny power a man can attain by comparison. Compare a 747 with a bird and blush!

- Roger Caras

source: Roger A. Caras (1971). “Birds in flight”, Westover Pub. Co

topic: Heart, Men, Wind, Larceny

the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.

- Ethel Smyth

source: Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

topic: Emotional, Practice, Temptation, Larceny, Brahms

Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.

- Adam Schiff

topic: Winning, Trials, Ends, Larceny

Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered. It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.

- Robert Goolrick

source: Robert Goolrick (2010). “A Reliable Wife”, p.15, Algonquin Books

topic: Goodbye, Sweet, Drama, Larceny, Forward Momentum

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

- James M. Cain

source: James M. Cain (2010). “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, p.20, Hachette UK

topic: Men, Wife, Car, Larceny

I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

- Johnny Cash

topic: Love, Mother, Song, Judgment Day, Larceny

[Libertarians] don't denounce what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism. Those on the receiving end of coercion don't quibble over their coercers' credentials. If you can't pay or don't want to, you don't much care if your deprivation is called larceny or taxation or restitution or rent. If you like to control your own time, you distinguish employment from enslavement only in degree and duration.

- Bob Black

topic: People, Taxation, Care, Larceny, Restitution

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer, John Richard Kuehl (1997). “The Basil and Josephine Stories”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

topic: Children, People, Vices, Larceny

A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

- Greg Smith

topic: Majority, Downtown, Common, Larceny, Violent Crimes

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Doubt, Republic, Rewards, Larceny, Public Welfare

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

- Finley Peter Dunne

topic: War, Men, Games, Larceny, Embezzlement