stolen quotes

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 9:17.

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong For such despite they cast on female wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

- Anne ne  e Dudley Bradstreet
  Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of  Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

- George Savile, 1st Marquis of Halifax
c.1687  Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
  'Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard'.

Today the revolution has been stolen by the revisionist clique of Deng.

-Jiang Qing or  Chiang Ch'ing
  Remark, May. Quoted in Ross Merrill Mao (1993), introduction.