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Crooked Quotes

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on

Song: Crooked Smile, Album: Born Sinner, 2013

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.76, DEBOLS!LLO

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

"The Very Best of Friedrich Nietzsche: Quotes from a Great Thinker" by David Graham, (p. 4), September 22, 2014.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

Lenny Bruce (2016). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People: An Autobiography”, p.132, Hachette UK

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.175, Courier Corporation

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

John Dryden (1985). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and Cressida”, p.42, Univ of California Press

A crooked log makes a strait fire.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Statement on October 29, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 141, 1962.

It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

"Akon, Ludacris Say Rick Ross Should Brush Off Rumors Of Prison-Guard Past" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. August 4, 2008.

We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.

George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.344

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Herbert Hoover (1955). “Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955”

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1350, Simon and Schuster

God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong.

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.

John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.242, Manchester University Press