Crooks Quotes - Page 2

In Chicago, we love our crooks!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Crooks are early adopters.

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

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

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

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

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is 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.

Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.

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.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

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

Despite more than a year of spittle-flecked fury at Hillary Clinton for using a private email server, most Trump voters probably don’t even know what a private server is. Nor do they care. It was just a buzzword that somehow meant Hillary was a crook.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

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?.

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

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

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