Quotations and Literature Forum

Does anyone know the first composer of this phrase? pna123

It's a proverb.

Matteux (1712). Quixote. "The old proverb still holds good, thieves are never rogues among themselves."

There is honor among thieves.
Entre bueyes no hay cornadas
~Traditional Proverb

"There is honor among thieves"
~ English proverb

We had our specialties in this contest of wits. One was distinguished as a sleuth. He fed on detective mysteries as a cat on a chicken-bone. He thought them out by day and dreamed them out by night, to the great exasperation of the official detectives, with whom their solution was a com- mercial, not in the least an intellectual, affair. They solved them on the plane of the proverbial lack of honor among thieves, by the formula, "You scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours."
~Jacob A. Riis (1849–1914). The Making of an American. 1901.
IX. Life in Mulberry Street
http://www.bartleby.com/207/9.html

All is fair in war and politics. It is a game of force and fraud. There is said to be honor among thieves, but one does not look for such a thing among statesmen.
http://www.vaivecchio.com/NewFiles/arti ... rtues.html

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.
~Groucho Marx

There are references going back to Cicero et al:

Not even those who live by wickedness and crime can get on without some small elenment of justice~Cicero, De Officis (c. 45 BC)

They say that thieves even have a code of laws to observe and obey~Ibid

Even in crime loyalty is rightly displayed~Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (c. 43 BC)

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true to one another~Shakespeare, Henry IV

..........................Very helpful, Thank you, Phaedrus...pna123

This subject seems very interesting.


Regards,
_____________________________________________________
home remedies for genital warts | Wartrol Reviews

I think i heard this phrase in old markets and commercials for n1rd games quite weird interesting subject nevertheless!


-----------------------
http://verodanshop.dk/