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.

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

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

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

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

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.

Well, I'm not a crook.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.