Cheaper Quote by Dashiell Hammett Download Open image “The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.” — Dashiell Hammett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cheaper Crooks
Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
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… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
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… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. — Owen D. Young Copy Share Image
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.” — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“You know Quinn?" Macaulay asked me. "Ten minutes ago I was putting him to bed." Macaulay grinned. "I hope you keep his acquaintance like… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: “Well, Wilmer, I’m sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn’t… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“...I guess I can put two and two together." "Sometimes the answer's four," I said, "and sometimes it's twenty-two...” — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Three times I have been mistaken for a prohibition agent, but never had any trouble clearing myself. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“...What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow?” — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling." "I didn't mean no harm," I said and… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
If you're angry, you don't have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always… — Bethany Cosentino Copy Share Image
There's a myth that free-to-play is cheaper than a $60 game. It's just elastic. For some users, it winds up being a lot more… — Mitch Lasky Copy Share Image
I have a constant kind of soundtrack going on at all times. I almost always have a song in my head. I'm very musically… — Erin Davie Copy Share Image
[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build. — Ted Baillieu Copy Share Image
I buy my produce at the local farmer's market, which is actually cheaper than shopping at the grocery store. — Anna Getty Copy Share Image
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
