Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

He who departs from consensus is not an infidel.

It is a naked fight against theft, and the thieves will not win.

Mutilations of parts of Fingers, are proper to disable such as have abused their dexterous use of them, by Pocket-picking, Counterfeiting of Seals and Writings, etc. Mutilations of other parts, may serve to punish and prevent Adulteries, Rapes, Incests, etc. And the smaller Corporal pains, serve to punish those, who can pay no pecuniary mulcts.

When the religion is subjected to restriction, evil, crime, corruption and pornography become spread everywhere

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

Great thieves go Scott-free, as the Pope and his crew.

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

Show me a liar, and I'll show you a thief.

One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.

The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.

I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief.

Oppurtunity Makes the Thief

You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.