Best 59 quotes in «crooks quotes» category

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

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.

Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.

Stupid crowds are the greatest wealth of the crook politicians!

Profit should never come at the cost of human blood. Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

The flute of the Pied Piper of Hamelin has never left us and it is essential that we train our ear to detect its false notes because in our case the flute is being played by the rats.

To err is human. To errah is Kennedy.

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

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

How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

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

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

She stared at him dully and said: “I don’t like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn’t like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn’t like you.” She turned to the outer door.

What's a crook, only a businessman without a shop.

You’re my mascot, Paper Moon.” I was too tired to object. We both knew I was more than a mascot. I’d worked for my brother since I was eleven, for six long years. “You should stop calling me that,” I said. “I love that name.” “P.M. and her dad were crooks. It gives it away.

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

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

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

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

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 long for the days of good honest crooks.

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

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.

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

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.

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

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.

I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.

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.

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter

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

It's always amusing to see how much less the political class knows than the rest of us do. ... it's never occurred to [the likes of Senators Brownback and Obama] that they bear a worse stigma than any AIDS patient, being almost universally regarded as blowhards, crooks, dopes, and fools.

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?

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?.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.