Burglars Quotes

“Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne”
― Rachel Caine, Ghost Town

“He smiled affably at the burglar, a burly fellow whom he continued to hold with one hand, as easily as if he had been a child. The entire household had been aroused, and a good number of them had joined in, shouting questions and brandishing various deadly instruments. The burglar glared wildly at Emerson, bare to the waist and bulging with muscle - at Gargery and his cudgel - at Selim, fingering a knife even longer than Nefret's - at assorted footmen armed with pokers, spits, and cleavers - and at the giant form of Daoud advancing purposefully toward him. 'It's a bleedin' army!' he gurgled. 'The lyin' barstard said you was some kind of professor!”
― Elizabeth Peters, The Falcon at the Portal

“Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer were a very notorious couple of cats.
As knockabout clowns, quick-change comedians,
Tight-rope walkers and acrobats
They had an extensive reputation.
[...]
When the family assembled for Sunday dinner,
With their minds made up that they wouldn’t get thinner
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens,
And the cook would appear from behind the scenes
And say in a voice that was broken with sorrow
"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow!
For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"
Then the family would say: "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie – or Rumpleteazer!" -
And most of the time they left it at that.

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer had a wonderful way of working together.
And some of the time you would say it was luck
And some of the time you would say it was weather.
They would go through the house like a hurricane,
And no sober person could take his oath
Was it Mungojerrie – or Rumpleteazer?
Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?

And when you heard a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there came a loud crash
Or down from the library came a loud ping
From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming
Then the family would say: "Now which was which cat?
It was Mungojerrie! And Rumpleteazer!"
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!”
― T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

“But he's nice," Barby objected.

Tom Bishop smiled without humor. "Most pleasant and interesting man I ever knew was a burglar.”
― John Blaine, The Phantom Shark

“Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“If more folks were afraid to keep dogs, there'd be easier pickings for them that make their living by what they can find in folks' houses at night.”
― Albert Payson Terhune, The Faith Of A Collie

“The burglar does not know what is in your house, if your surroundings are not burglars.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“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