"The most evil person I ever met was……" — Paul Johnson
"The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell."
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39 Quotes by Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson has 39 quotes on this site.
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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
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To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our…
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A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
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This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and…
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Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from…
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I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to.…
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Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
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When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
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Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
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More Crook Quotes
This quote is filed under Crook Quotes,
one of 71 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
— Unknown Author
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You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
— Harry S. Truman
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The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower…
— John Burroughs
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I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from…
— Richard M. Nixon
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I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist,…
— Walter Matthau
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
— James Dean
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From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money…
— Don King
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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor…
— Thomas More
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.
— Neal Boortz
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I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
— Indro Montanelli
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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else…
— Ken Livingstone
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