A ghost who, on the same evening, carries off an opera-singer and steals twenty-thousand francs is a ghost who must have his hands very full!
It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.
A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood.
Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.
Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen
Give me a man who steals a little and I can make money
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.
Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!
One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.
Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people. . . anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil.
If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into the home of the unhappy and the needy. Perhaps even in the famous mother-love there is a good deal of curiosity.
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
He that steals an egg will steal an ox.
This is the truth: I'm into sales. I love deals. I'm definitely a sucker for steals.
He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.
Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.
Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.
Nothing steals God's glory more than worrying believers who are driven through life by fear