Definition of Thief

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Definition of Thief
	Thief One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. A waster in the snuff of a candle. Related Definitions: Candle, In, Larceny, Of, One, Or, See, Snuff, The, Theft, Waster, Who

Thief Quotations

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
Benjamin Franklin

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare

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

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
William Blake

Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
Sitting Bull

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti

A selfish man is a thief.
Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
Jose Marti

Thief Translations

thief in Afrikaans is dief
thief in Danish is tyv
thief in Dutch is dief, steler
thief in French is crocheteur
thief in German is Dieb
thief in Hungarian is tolvaj
thief in Latin is furs, ereptor
thief in Norwegian is tyv
thief in Swedish is tjuv

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