There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!

The more in control the mark thinks they are, the more easily the respond to real control.

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?""One that has something better" - Locke Lamora to the Gray king

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

All the people like us are We And everyone else is They.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life

[Donald] Trump has put forward a list of people he would like to see on the Supreme Court, whom the Kochs would be very happy with too. So it's not all bad for them.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged.

I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.