#robber

Jem grinned. “Where have you been? The Blue Dragon? The Mermaid?” “The Devil Tavern if you must know.” Will sighed and leaned against one of the posts of the bed. “I had such plans for the evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower-selling child who asked me for two-pence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.” “A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said. “Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel.” “Easy mistake to make,” Jem said. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #midgets #robbery #will-herondale #goals

You have a couple of buddies sleep over, and, you know, you play cops and robbers. That I'm getting paid to do it now is kind of funny. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#cops #couple #funny #getting #i

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved. ↗

— George Washington

#bad #kind #lost #only #passes

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#kind #law #men #most #precious

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#cops #crime #each #investigating #learn

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

#evil #going #good #good and evil #robbers

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#grave #i #known #robber #state

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#bank robbery #cover #die #easily #racing

Property is organized robbery. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#property #robbery

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#characterized #country #english #fifty #fraud