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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.

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Thief Quotations

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

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

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

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo

Hunger makes a thief of any man.
Pearl S. Buck

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
Denis Diderot

The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Diogenes

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

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Lukas Foss

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
Eamon de Valera

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
Cat Stevens

The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
Juvenal

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
Edgar Watson Howe

Procrastination is the thief of time.
Edward Young

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.
Cornelia Funke

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.
Elias Hicks

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
Tony Hillerman

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Katherine Anne Porter

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.
Johan Cruijff

A thief believes everybody steals.
Edward W. Howe

First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.
Aleksandr Lebed

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.
Andre Braugher

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
Joe Garagiola

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
Rex Harrison

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
Ernestine L. Rose

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
Vittorio De Sica

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
Samuel Fuller

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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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