thief (n.)
- bandit
- betrayer
- booster
- brigand
- buccaneer
- burglar
- charlatan
- cheat
- convict
- corsair
- cracksman
- criminal
- crook
- cutpurse
- dacoit
- deceiver
- delinquent
- desperado
- dip
- double-dealer
- embezzler
- evildoer
- felon
- filibuster
- footpad
- freebooter
- fugitive
- gangster
- gaolbird
- gunman
- highwayman
- hijacker
- housebreaker
- jailbird
- kleptomaniac
- larcener
- larcenist
- lawbreaker
- lifter
- malefactor
- malfeasant
- marauder
- mobster
- mountebank
- mugger
- nip
- outlaw
- peculator
- pickpocket
- pilferer
- pirate
- plunderer
- poacher
- prig
- privateer
- quisling
- racketeer
- robber
- ruffian
- scofflaw
- sharper
- shoplifter
- sinner
- stealer
- swindler
- thug
- traitor
- transgressor
- trickster
- two-timer
- villain
- wrongdoer
Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
I 'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing's a thief.
I 'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing's a thief.
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.
I 'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing's a thief.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.
I 'll example you with thievery:
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing's a thief.
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
No Indian prince has to his palace
More followers than a thief to the gallows.
A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
