A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky

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

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
John Le Carre

A thief believes everybody steals.
Edward W. Howe

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
Paris Hilton

Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Virgil

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken

Everyone steals from something or someone.
Janice Dickinson

He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Nigella Lawson

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
B. B. King

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.
David R. Ellis

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Michel de Montaigne

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
Doug Larson

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
Thomas Eakins

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
Edvard Munch

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