Robbers

Famous quotes containing the word robbers:

    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)

    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)