rob quotes

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

-James Connolly
  Socialism Made Easy.

His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

- Henry Fielding
  Tom Jones, bk.11, ch.4.

Long life to thy fame and peace to thy soul, Rob Burns! When I want to express a sentiment which I feel strongly, I find the phrase in Shakespeareor thee. The blockheads talk of my being like Shakespearenot fit to tie his brogues.

- Sir Walter Scott
  Journal,11 Dec.

That hobnailed goblin, the bob-tailed Hob, said,'It is time I began to rob'.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
  Fa c° ade,'Country Dance'.