Top 100 Crook Quotes

#1. I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

Tom Clancy

#2. How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#3. A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.

Bertolt Brecht

#4. A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.

Anthony Liccione

#5. This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Larry Elder

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.

Catherine Crook De Camp

#8. 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?

Robert Orben

#9. Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Truman Capote

#10. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.

Truman Capote

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

Indro Montanelli

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

Douglas Adams

#13. I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

Mackenzie Crook

#14. All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

Mackenzie Crook

#15. in the crook of her elbow as she went. Above her, over an apartment building and a tavern, she saw the expanse of a large square building with a flat roof and a single cylinder chimney. It was a tan-brick warehouse with dark broken windows. An abandoned bird's

Charlie N. Holmberg

#16. Maybe that was what millions could do
nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.

V.C. Andrews

#17. 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.

Esther Dyson

#18. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

Virginia Woolf

#19. Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

Wojciech Kurtyka

#20. 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.

Michael Tsarion

#21. I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

George Crook

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

Homer

#23. One would think the more obtrusive setting would create the greatest impact, but instead it is the solitude that presses with more force.

Elizabeth Crook

#24. But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.

George Crook

#25. I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.

Mackenzie Crook

#26. The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

George Crook

#27. He drew in an answering breath, and she waited to hear the quip, the joke, the dab of levity for the most intense moment they'd ever shared. But he only dropped his head into the crook of her neck and laid his mouth over her leaping pulse as they found their unhurried rhythm in the dark.

Jessica Lemmon

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

Jacob Zuma

#29. Crook your finger;
they'll come closer.
Pull the covers tighter to your chin;
in beside you they'll creep.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#30. Weak passwords are a crook's best friend. Make yours long and complex, and change them often - not just on your bank account but on your email and social media, too.

Jean Chatzky

#31. During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.

George Crook

#32. I open my eyes and blow a straggle of hair out of my face. Not my hair, smitty's. his head is buried in the crook of my neck and he's out cold. he uses raspberry shampoo? what a big girl.

Kirsty McKay

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

Charlie Chaplin

#34. If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.

George Crook

#35. It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man.

George Crook

#36. I think he's quite aware , as is everyone here, that you don't need to worm your way into my bed, Miss Raven." He stepped away from her. "You need only crook your finger and I would be ripping your clothes off your body.

Michelle Diener

#37. ...So when the weather wasn't too overbearingly hot he tucked her arm in the crook of his elbow, and they walked about town, running errands and asking questions.
And falling in love

Julia Quinn

#38. All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.

George Crook

#39. The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.

John Burroughs

#40. A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to be charming because they are childlike, he is also a schemer, self-seeker, traitor, Judas, crook, and villain - in short, a man.

Robertson Davies

#41. I still think Barty must be a crook,

Carolyn Keene

#42. The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.

George Crook

#43. [On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.

Catherine Crook De Camp

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

Richard M. Nixon

#45. I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook.

Benny Hinn

#46. I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

Mackenzie Crook

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

Irwin Corey

#48. You were a prick and a crook, but no one deserves to go out the way you went. I hope it was over quick and that you tasted like ass all the way down. Amen.

Richard Kadrey

#49. Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#50. 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.

Will Rogers

#51. She sat down on the bed next to Crispen,
and he snuggled into the crook of her arm.
"I'm getting you dirty," he whispered.
"I don't care."
"What are we going to do, Mairin?

Maya Banks

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

Bernard Ebbers

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

Frank Perdue

#54. I think," Sophia said as Max mock-scowled, "I'm going to like having a younger brother." Reaching out, she slipped her arm into the crook of River's elbow. "So, tell me all of Max's secrets.

Nalini Singh

#55. I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.

George Crook

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

Paul Johnson

#57. From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

Don King

#58. Well, I'm not a crook.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Richard Taverner

#60. Oh. My. Sweet. Lord," she gasped.
"If every time gets more intense, we'll burn out the relationship, he said hoarsely.
"But what a way to go." She nestled down into the crook of his arm when he shifted his weight to one side.

Carolyn Brown

#61. Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock

If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,
maybe you can grasp it.

Dick Allen

#62. Friendship among thieves only goes so far. Look at the fact that dirty cops will try to frame other cops and even kill other cops. A crook is a crook, blue suit or jeans.

Janice Cantore

#63. You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

Latif Mercado

#64. We Americans tend to be a prodigal lot. We are as careless with our personal resources as we are with the resources of nature, squandering both as if there were no end to the gifts of earth and sea and sky.

Catherine Crook De Camp

#65. On the hinder slope of the hill two little goatherds are tending a flock of goats; one of them is sitting on a rock whittling a crook out of ash, while the other is trying to coax a few tweets out of a reed flute.

Camilo Jose Cela

#66. Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

Catherine Crook De Camp

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

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#68. 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.

James Dean

#69. A name with a gently exotic ring to it, like birdsong, like a grain of sand in the far-off Gobi Desert or the northern steppes, whipped up by the wind, carried by storms, swirling through the sky, travelling, crossing whole countries without knowing quite how, and ending up in the crook of my ear.

Dai Sijie

#70. The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

George Crook

#71. It continued to amaze me how the touch of skin on skin had altered things: curled in the crook of his arm, my head upon his breast, I'd sensed his heart beating and for a moment hadn't been sure whether it was mine.

Claire Messud

#72. Don't read any more into the book than is intended. I am not a crook. Seriously. This is fiction and I'm sticking to that statement. Dedication

Timothy Freriks

#73. In the crook of the crescent moon sits the Holy Lady, with strong muscles and a merciful heart. She kicks her her splendid legs like the moon is her swing and the sky, her front porch. She waves down at Sidda like she has just spotted an old buddy.

Rebecca Wells

#74. 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.

Richard M. Nixon

#75. Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

Michael Ignatieff

#76. 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.

Hilary Mantel

#77. 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.

William Shakespeare

#78. It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.

George Crook

#79. I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

Mackenzie Crook

#80. Then Jack takes me in his arms, and although I am still distraught, I cannot help but notice how well I fit in them, my head perfectly right for the crook of his neck.

Alex Flinn

#81. The dust made Lily cough. She buried her face in the crook of her arm to muffle the noise. But behind all that wood, they probably could play the 1812 Overture with real cannons and nobody would hear them.

Ellie McDonald

#82. That little school in the crook of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin. He'd

Chad Harbach

#83. First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot.

George Crook

#84. Their hatred of the Germans was quieter and more deadly than I have ever seen before.

David M. Crook

#85. With a sigh, I moved my lips once more against hers before shifting and pulling her body to my side. "I'm in love with you."
Echo settled her head in the crook of my arm as her fingertips lazily touched my face. "I know. I love you, too.

Katie McGarry

#86. You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

Harry S. Truman

#87. When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.

George Crook

#88. America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.

Joe Dempsie

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

Peter M. Brant

#90. There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

Ronald Biggs

#91. She is the key to this mystery, a key that I will turn, by hook or by crook.

Frances Hardinge

#92. I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

Mackenzie Crook

#93. It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.

George Crook

#94. Thus, by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated "by hook and by crook," the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought, by all who understood nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it.

Washington Irving

#95. Catwoman had transgressed the patriarchal social order, and because of it had to be a crook, but Wonder Woman was establishing a new matriarchal social order and she was its heroic model.

Tim Hanley

#96. 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.

Anthony Horowitz

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

Sefton Delmer

#98. Tears are nothing to be ashamed of at all.
-Grandma Shaw

Connie Brummel Crook

#99. The Indian is a human being.

George Crook

#100. Greet him with gentle words and caresses and welcome him onto their bed, where he would curl, purring, warm in the crook of a bent knee.

Erin Hunter

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