Burgling Quotes & Sayings

I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day.
- Bilbo Baggins — J.R.R. Tolkien

When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime. — W.S. Gilbert

Drop onto all fours and crawl the length of the court or field, as if you were climbing a wall. This prepares you, too, for light cat burgling, should your athletic career flag. — Gretchen Reynolds

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good. — Chen Guangcheng

The views of intellectuals influence the politics of tomorrow ... What to the contemporary observer appears as the battle of conflicting interests has indeed often been described long before in a clash of ideas confined to narrow circles. — Friedrich Hayek

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity. — Thomas Carlyle

I am catastrophically in love with you. — Cassandra Clare

Your day is full of choices . . . what to eat, where to go, how to talk, all kinds of things like that. Most of those choices involve a kind of choice within the choice: Do I simply choose what I want, or do I consider what's best for others while I consider what I want? When you choose what's best for others first, you're choosing to be selfless. Choose what you want without considering others and, obviously, you're being selfish. — Todd G. Gongwer

Bother burgling and everything to do with it! I wish I was at home In my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing! It was not the last time that he wished that! — J.R.R. Tolkien

No burglar wastes his time burgling authors. — P.G. Wodehouse