We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

What is government but theft by consent?

The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.

Difficult" and "impossible" are cousins often mistaken for one another, with very little in common." (Locke Lamora to Requin)

In the glass burrow beneath their feet, the flames began to rise. First the flames, and then the screams

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?