Steal
A handle; a stale, or stele.
To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another.
To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation; -- with away.
To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
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Steal Quotations
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
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
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
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.
Erma Bombeck
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T. S. Eliot
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
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
Alexander Hamilton
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
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
David Ogilvy
Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.
Steven Tyler
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.
Theodor Herzl
No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back."
Sophia Loren
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson
After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.
Maynard James Keenan
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
That's why I called my record Devil Without a Cause - I'm a white boy who's so sick of hearing that white kids are going to steal rap.
Kid Rock
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings
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
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin
There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
Jerry Falwell
No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
Sextus Propertius
My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!
John Dillinger
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
When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Wilson Mizner
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
Ritchie Blackmore
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Steal Translations
steal in Afrikaans is steel
steal in Dutch is sluipen
steal in Finnish is varastaa
steal in German is stehlen
steal in Italian is sotrarre, rubare
steal in Latin is abigo, latrocinor, corripio
steal in Norwegian is stjele
steal in Portuguese is roube
steal in Spanish is hurtar, robar, sonsacar
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