You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him.
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.
A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight.
Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.
There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing
I may be a burglar. . . but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.
Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.
But she was already in. Gareth couldn't help but stand back in admiration. Hyacinth Bridgerton was clearly a natural born athlete. Either that or a cat burglar.
Don't throw a baby at anything - even a burglar.
If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.
A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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.
What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.
I'd probably be a burglar, I'd burgle people.
