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
#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. 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
#5. To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person
Robert Kiyosaki
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
Indro Montanelli
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
Homer
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Crook your finger;
they'll come closer.
Pull the covers tighter to your chin;
in beside you they'll creep.
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
Charlie Chaplin
#23. 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
#24. ...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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#29. 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
#30. I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.
Irwin Corey
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I just want you to know you aren't going to church with a crook.
Bernard Ebbers
#36. I can't tell by looking in your eyes whether you're a priest or a crook.
Frank Perdue
#37. 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
#38. The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
Paul Johnson
#39. 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
#41. Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.
Richard Taverner
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!
Latif Mercado
#46. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. That little school in the crook of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin. He'd
Chad Harbach
#60. 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
#62. 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
#63. There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.
Peter M. Brant
#64. There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
Ronald Biggs
#65. She is the key to this mystery, a key that I will turn, by hook or by crook.
Frances Hardinge
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. I gazed into the mirror ... There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook
Sefton Delmer
#70. 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
#71. 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.
Horace Walpole
#72. The water settled along with Lex's frantic breaths, and she lifted her face from the crook of Dallas's neck. "Jesus."
Grinning, Dallas pushed damp hair back from her cheek. "Yeah, that got a little out of hand. I can't seem to keep my cock out of you.
Kit Rocha
#73. In a way, the very success which the Boss laid on Tiny was his revenge on Tiny, for every time the Boss put his meditative, sleepy, distant gaze on Tiny, Tiny would know, with a cold clutch at his fat heart, that if the Boss should crook a finger there wouldn't be anything but the whiff of smoke.
Robert Penn Warren
#74. Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.
Neal Boortz
#76. As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law")
Bill Loguidice
#77. Oh, Mama," I said. "What if I don't live that long?" My mother didn't hesitate one second. "By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It's like reading a thriller. You can't put it down because you have to know how the story turns out.
Jo-Ann Mapson
#79. When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
#80. An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot ... but a crook must have brains.
Maxim Gorky
#82. A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
Duncan Sheik
#83. There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx
#84. As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.
Kelly Reichardt
#85. 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.
Thomas More
#86. How did Heaven come into all of this? Heaven was life, not death. Heaven was a woman holding your head in the crook of her arm and looking down at you. Heaven was a warm hand on your cheek and the smell of soup with garlic on the fire.
Christopher Buehlman
#87. Had a cold hummus with pita bread,
Under a delicious food, yellow or red.
Might just have the appetite to cook
Urgent dinner by hook or crook.
So that's just a humus humor spread.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#88. It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
Owen D. Young
#89. Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.
Art Buchwald
#90. Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
Lionel Shriver
#91. 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?.
Jay Leno
#92. It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.
Jed S. Rakoff
#93. I think these movements and become them, here,
In this room's stillness, none of them about,
And relish them all-until I think of where
Thrashed by a crook, the cursive adder writes
Quick V's and Q's in the dust and rubs them out.
from Movements
Norman MacCaig
#94. 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.
Ken Livingstone
#95. The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean ... Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.
Truman Capote
#96. Yes, you have to move. I think it might be a good idea to get something inside you."
"But I just had something inside me."
Logan groaned and dropped his head forward to the crook of Tate's neck and shoulder. "You get dirtier every fucking day I know you, I swear.
Ella Frank
#97. The more he held me and the more he whispered his love to me in the crook of night, the more I began to believe that I was made for something more. That my body could be used as a home for a child and that my heart could make room for a cradle.
Emily T. Wierenga
#98. Arin pulled her onto his lap. He held her shaking form, tucked his face into the crook of her cold neck as she sobbed against him. He murmured that he loved her more than he could say. He promised that he would always choose her first.
Marie Rutkoski
#99. I'm a very firm believer that a liar is a cheat and a thief and a crook. I don't like liars. I never lie. I always told my own child, If you murder somebody, tell me. I'll help you hide the body. But don't you lie to me.
Leona Helmsley
#100. A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.
Anthony Liccione
