The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo. - William Blake
ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding. - Ambrose Bierce
The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
The instinct of the thief is most strongly marked in the Skua tribe, and I am afraid that the mere love of thieving alone actuates them on many occasions. - George Murray Levick