Crooks Quotes

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.

Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.

I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

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.

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?

Well, I'm not a crook.

But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.

To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.

An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

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.

Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply enough attack those wretched crooks who would like to make religion an implement to perform political or rather business services for them.

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

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 law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

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 school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.

I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.

I gazed into the mirror... There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook

Crooks are early adopters.

I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

Hillary Clinton shouldn't be allowed to run for president. She shouldn't be allowed. She's a crook.

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.

I long for the days of good honest crooks.

Well, I'm used to rubbing shoulders with crooks and criminals.

With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's going, why bother?.

Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.