Crooks Quotes

102 Crooks quotes by 91 unique authors

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. — Will Rogers
By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have… — Barack Obama
Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a… — J D Salinger
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So,… — Larry Elder
I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way… — Tom Hanks
In Chicago, we love our crooks! — David Mamet
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook. — Groucho Marx
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. — Richard M. Nixon
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out… — Matt Taibbi
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but… — Hunter S. Thompson
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is… — William Wordsworth
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches. — Lionel Shriver
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. — Douglas Adams
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the… — James Dean
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or… — Virginia Woolf
Trust me, I have not earned your dear rebuke, I love, as you would have me, God the most; Would lose not Him, but you,… — Christina Rossetti
Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read… — Nizar Qabbani
How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and… — Alexander Shulgin
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving,… — Ian Mcewan
Isabelle and Sebastian? Hardly. Sebastian’s a nice guy – Isabelle only likes dating thoroughly inappropriate boys our parents will hate. Mundanes, Downworlders, petty crooks…” “Thanks,”… — Cassandra Clare
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops. — Tom Clancy
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. — Dashiell Hammett
By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember — Homer
Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist.… — Truman Capote
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because… — Robertson Davies

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