Robbery Quotes

“Jem grinned. “Where have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?”
“The Devil Tavern if you must know.” Will sighed and leaned against one of the posts of the bed. “I had such plans for the evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for two-pence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.”
“A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said.
“Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.”
“Easy mistake to make,” Jem said.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods — her fertile fields — her beautiful rivers — her mighty lakes, and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When I remember that all is cursed with the infernal actions of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, — when I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.”
― Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.”
― Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals

“The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”
― Nelson Algren, Nonconformity: Writing on Writing

“Now because 18 months ago the first dawn, 3 months ago broad daylight but a very few days ago the full sun of the most highly remarkable spectacle has risen — nothing holds me back. I can give myself up to the sacred frenzy, I can have the insolence to make a full confession to mortal men that I have stolen the golden vessel of the Egyptians to make from them a tabernacle for my God far from the confines of the land of Egypt. If you forgive me I shall rejoice; if you are angry, I shall bear it; I am indeed casting the die and writing the book, either for my contemporaries or for posterity to read, it matters not which: let the book await its reader for a hundred years; God himself has waited six thousand years for his work to be seen.”
― Johannes Kepler, Harmonies of the World

“Everybody knows I was a millionaire. And from there to killing me because they think I'm carrying fifty or a hundred thousand francs around isn't a very long step.”
― Henri Charrière, Papillon

“These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to leave something rather than take it.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Stolen oranges also have Vitamin C. Likewise, a stolen salmon, too, has omega-3 fatty acids.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“And that was when it really came home to me what I was about to do. I was going to rob a bank, committing the additional crime of arson in the process, and if I got caught I'd go to prison.
Well, I thought, go on selling second-hand jalopies for another forty years and maybe somebody'll give you a testimonial and a forty-dollar watch.”
― Charles Williams, The Hot Spot

“If a tattoo is supposed to make a statement, that kid’s body is just plain babbling.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, Crime Capsules: Tales of Death, Desire, and Deception

“It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is no friend so faithful as a good book. There is no worse robber than a bad book.”
― Italian proverb

“As Sloan approached the door, Paul Lyons lifted his eyes to watch her leave. He found himself wondering why after all these years they couldn’t manage to get along for a lousy twenty minutes. Perhaps it was the result of their inability to compromise—to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Or maybe they’d both simply lost the ability to trust another human being and believe anything good could come of this world.”
― Kaylin McFarren, Banished Threads

“ماذا إذن كانت فائدة كل تلك القرون من قتل الهنود والسود والبيض في أربعة أركان الأرض ؟ أهذه نهاية كل هذا التعب - أن بعض الأسرات البريطانية ما زالت ربح في الأسبوع مبلغاً لا يزيد عن الذي تربحه أسرات البلاد المنهوبة في اشهر وربما في العام ؟!”
― محمد عفيفي, سكة سفر

“A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Chrissake. Yes, it's funny: "Yo, empty your pockets," and he pulls out a bunny rabbit. But it's also depressing. If someone who can make himself disappear isn't safe, who is?”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“Ongent just keeps huffing and puffing up the steps, as if he's out for an afternoon constitutional and his only worry is getting to the top of this little hill, not getting robbed and left in a ditch.

She contemplates robbing him and leaving him in a ditch.”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Gutter Prayer

“I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In reality, he was living off of his victims. He stole purses, broke into cars, robbed people that were coming out of the subway, and did a lot of shoplifting. He was like a human parasite, which was ironic considering what was going through his body this very moment.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Worrying about your future will rob you of your present. You deserve a good present.”
― Andrena Sawyer

“No one wants to tell the tale of being robbed by an old woman whose locomotion is assisted by hand-carved staff.”
― Suraj Sani, Thorns in the desert

“If we have a gift that we have kept to ourselves, we have perpetrated our own robbery.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A Sharing Shearing by Stewart Stafford

A sartorial accoutrement,
The hijacking blister overruns,
Morphs into a restless jockey
A green-eyed stallion mounted.

Sense deep neck bite wounds,
In the snarling invisible attacks,
The naysayers whisper to you:
"Burglars ransack the home."

A blade tip runs down the spine,
Walk a plank of splintered avarice,
Seize the weapon from the intruder,
Cut out the mouth ulcer in exorcism.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“That means three of the greatest thieves in the world are currently sitting on this private jet,” I said. “We’re not talking to the registrar. We’re breaking in. It would be a waste of talent otherwise.”
― Jonathan Moeller, Cloak of Masks

“Trying to rob people through violence was tricky because violence was like flipping a coin and seeing what happened – it might not go the way you thought it would. The best thefts were ones where the victim didn’t even realize anything was missing until you were far away.”
― Jonathan Moeller, Cloak of Dragonfire

“What is Toll?
Toll: It's like expecting a red carpet in a accident zone. ”
― Dipti Dhakul

“You cut in line. That’s a tiny robbery. You are stealing time from my life—and that’s also partial murder.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes