Crook Quotes

71 quotes by 65 authors

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. — Charlie Chaplin
Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne. — Richard Taverner
You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. — Harry S. Truman
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more… — John Burroughs
I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every… — Richard M. Nixon
I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist, I could play an art… — Walter Matthau
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. — James Dean
From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman… — Don King
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the… — Thomas More
Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook. — Neal Boortz
I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also. — Indro Montanelli
It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually… — Ken Livingstone
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook. — Ronald Biggs
The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies — Big L
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law… — Al Capone
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following — Duncan Sheik
Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook. — Jacob Zuma
I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook — Bernard Ebbers
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook… — Wojciech Kurtyka

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