Steal Quotes

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Government, Business

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare

Him, Show, Himself

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt

Education, Car, School

Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso

Good, Great, Artists

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus Christ

Love, Yourself, Single

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.
John Wooden

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma Bombeck

Why, Anyone, Shopping

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot

Immature, Mature, Poets

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Tomorrow, Touch

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander Hamilton

Taken, Advantage, Consent

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.
Anatole France

Equality, Sleep, Law

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo

Men, Guns, Lawyer

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen

Guilty, Second, Played

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague

Freedom, Mind, Human

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner

Research, Plagiarism, Author

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Abbie Hoffman

Evil, Brother, Sister

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Equality, Sleep, Law

I steal from every movie ever made.
Quentin Tarantino

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller

Blame, Greatness, Guilt

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton

Down, Thoughts, Plagiarism

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling

Immature, Artists, Mature

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
Tacitus

Peace, Call, Empire

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings

Good, Hope, Writer

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky

Great, Artists, Borrow

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Mind, Evil, Public

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.
Walter Scott

Life, Men, Mean

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin

Nothing, Small, Number

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith

Small, Economic, Return

If you ever have the good fortune to create a great advertising campaign, you will soon see another agency steal it. This is irritating, but don't let it worry you; nobody has ever built a brand by imitating somebody else's advertising.
David Ogilvy

Good, Great, Else

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
Daniel Radcliffe

Put, Once, Tried

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