it takes a thief to catch a thief

It takes a thief to catch a thief," he said. "

Malone thought of what his chief had said: "It takes a thief to catch a thief."

There is an old idiom which goes: it takes a thief to catch a thief.

Although perhaps not by those investigators who adhere to the adage "It takes a thief to catch a thief."

Kennedy had heard Seawell's unflattering comment about him on the radio, where the young lawyer said, "It takes a thief to catch a thief".

It takes a thief to catch a thief," said Lebrun enigmatically, when he saw that he had the ear of the crowd, "and it takes a man to catch a man.

Here, if I may use an old adage to illustrate, it takes a thief to catch a thief... It was 1960, and in that year the first scout/sniper school commenced under Land's and Terry's direction.

It Takes A Thief was inspired by, though not based upon, the 1955 Cary Grant motion picture To Catch a Thief, directed by Alfred Hitchcock; both of their titles stem from the English proverb "It takes a thief to catch a thief."