Honor Among Thieves

Todd E Van Hoosear (vanhoose@lalaland.cl.msu.edu)
Sun, 30 Jun 1996 17:17:09 -0400 (EDT) 



From: Robert Craig <craigr@argonet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Honor among thieves (?)
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 19:15:36


>Wondering if others have heard this phrase.  I cannot find it in

>Bartletts, Oxford, or _Phrase and Fable_.  Anyone know the origin?

>Thank you for any help.

>

"There is honor even among thieves"  or
"Honor among thieves"
see under Honor in Dictionary of American Quotations ed Mieder 1992
first recorded 1630. Also a long entry in ODEP


1703 "Thieves are never rogues among themselves"


Robert Craig   craigr@argonet.co.uk

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