Pickpocket Quotes

“We were two of a kind, the only difference being that he was reverential before all the traditional word magic, and I would steal it if I could. He came to the tradition as a pilgrim, I as a pickpocket.”
― Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety

“That man tried to picka my frienda’s pocketoni!”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“Clothes make the man. Especially the pockets.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“If we like a person, all his attributes will manifest within us. If we like a pickpocket, even his attributes will manifest within us.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“He pulled a pink bedazzled phone from his hoodie pocket. "Call your friend. Let him know you're here."

"This is your phone?"

"Lady on the bus," he answered.

Her jaw dropped. "She sat two rows ahead of us."

"We passed her on the way to the back row."

He picked a pocket that fast? "What are you?"

"That's a damn good question. Now call your friend.”
― Cindy Skaggs, Survive By The Team

“Everyone did something bad from time to time.
This could be her something.”
― Jay Marksman, Of Thieves and Dying Leaves

“Not a single way around this town is without thugs. Rakes, crooks, slants, dandies, ‘piquants’, swindlers: who does not line our roads? Each one has his eyes fixed on your purse. It is hard to miss them.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan