THIEF in Classic Quotes

1  A thief is admitted there, provided he be a god.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON

2  The thief had flung away the loaf, but his arm was still bleeding.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN

3  She shared her lodgings, which were furnished in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English thief.

Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND

4  Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen.

Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...

5  This orthography might have confounded the pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of a descent from the wicked thief.

Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI—THE LITTLE CONVENT

6  He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, scraped the gutters, stole a little, but, like cats and sparrows, gayly laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief.

Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GAVROCHE