“Must have been a mix up in the uniforms…pants feel…too…

“Must have been a mix up in the uniforms…pants feel…too tight…boots are loose… I’m gonna have blisters for sure…” - Guard

Quotes from Thief: Deadly Shadows, Miscellaneous quotes

Other Thief Quotes

“I was a kid. No parents, no home, running messages or picking pockets to keep my ribs from meeting my spine. One day I saw a man, folks just passed him by as if he wasn’t there. I thought he must have something valuable, so I snuck up on him and made a grab. - View Quote Details on “I was a kid. No parents, no home, running messages…
Hadst I a hammer, wouldst I hammer in the morning. Wouldst I hammer in the evening, all over this land. - View Quote Details on Hadst I a hammer, wouldst I hammer in the morning…
“What’s the matter? You are afraid of the big bad guard?” - Guard - View Quote Details on “What’s the matter? You are afraid of the big bad…
“The Builder Has Gifted Thee
With The Greatest Of All Treasures - The Future!
But Thine Own Will Forges The Key That Opens The Lock.” -Karras, Private Correspondence - View Quote Details on With The Greatest Of...">“The Builder Has Gifted Thee
With The Greatest Of…
“I’ll be home soon, drinking good dark ale, nibbling on a nice leg of mutton, forgetting about this place….” - Guard - View Quote Details on “I’ll be home soon, drinking good dark ale, nibbling on…
“You shalt know thy enemies well, for they wield not the hammer,
and forest dwellers be they.” -From the Book of the Master Builder - View Quote Details on “You shalt know thy enemies well, for they wield not…
Garrett: “Angelwatch? Is this how our arrangement is gonna work, you coming up with ways for me to get myself killed?”
Victoria: “Is this really Garrett the Master Thief I hear talking? If danger is going to be a problem for you, then…”
Garrett: “Just– give me the details.” - View Quote Details on Garrett: “Angelwatch? Is this how our arrangement is gonna work,…
“The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the iron cannot know why the fire scorches it. When thy life is cleft and scorched, when death and despair leap at thee, beat not thy breast and curse thy evil fate, but thank the Builder for the trials that shape thee.” -The Hammer Book of Tenets - View Quote Details on “The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the…
“Thief is the single most terrifying, immersive, and rewarding game I have played and the one single-player game I continue to replay. In addition to the overriding stealth gamestyle, it is loaded with unique elements that hold one in the world. I love the setting, a medieval tech fantasy world that owes less to D&D than to such literary lights as Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance and Michael Shea. It has a spare, but well-crafted storyline, eccentric NPCs, brilliant verse, and unparalleled sound design. Then there are the enormous, intricate levels: Sprawling towns (both populated and ruinous), haunted crypts, bizarre mansions, lost cities, and the finest subterranean sequences in any game the climactic level being a surreal descent that convinced me I had scrambled many miles towards the earth’s core. There are countless books I wish I had written; Thief is one of the few games I wish I had worked on.” - Marc Laidlaw, Valve (writer/designer: Half-Life) - View Quote Details on “Thief is the single most terrifying, immersive, and rewarding game…
“There Are Those To Whom Knowledge Is A Shield,
And Those To Whom It Is A Weapon.
Neither View Is Balanced,
But One Is Less Unwise.” -Keeper Annals - View Quote Details on “There Are Those To Whom Knowledge Is A Shield,…