I 'll example you with thievery:
The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon 's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth 's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing 's a thief.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Timon of Athens
-- Act iv, Sc. 3
The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon 's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth 's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing 's a thief.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Timon of Athens
-- Act iv, Sc. 3
Related:
- The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act i... - Send a thief to catch a
thief... - Every true man's apparel fits your thief.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Measure for Measure -- Act iv, Sc.... - The thief
Left it behind --
The moon at the window. --... - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears:
see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief.... - Set a thief to catch a thief.
French... - Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry VI --... - Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
Timon of Athens -- Act i, Sc....
