"Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook],……" — Unknown Author

More Crook Quotes

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• I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch. — Charlie Chaplin
• 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… — John Burroughs
• I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from… — Richard M. Nixon
• I could play a cop, I could play a crook, I could play a lawyer, I could play a dentist,… — 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… — Don King
• In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor… — 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… — 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

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