Famous quotes containing the word robbers:
“What does headquarters think these guys came over here for, a sewing circle? They go up playing for keeps. Cops and robbers with rocks in the snowballs. Brass knuckles and lead pipes and a roughneck conviction they can lick any man in the world.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)
“Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I am not like that. I pay rent, am addled
By illegible landlords, run, if robbers call.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)