Crooks Quotes

102 Crooks quotes by 91 unique authors

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
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters. — Oswald Chambers
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
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder. — James Carville
Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his… — Robert Burns
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
As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and… — Jimmy Buffett
I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks,… — Conrad Black
And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me,… — Esther Dyson
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy… — John Gunther
A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes,… — Sijie Dai
We’re being ripped off and screwed by a bunch of liars, thieves, crooks, and criminals, and they’re not the folks below. Don’t look in the… — Jerry Brown
So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That… — Al Sharpton
I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the… — Michel de Montaigne
Well, I'm not a crook. — Richard M. Nixon
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty… — Alexei Navalny
Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks. — Cory Doctorow
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. — Bob Dylan
There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook. — Peter M. Brant
Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in… — Art Buchwald
Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and crooks; who never… — John Fugelsang
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment… — Horace Walpole

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