A Quote by Indro Montanelli

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also. — © Indro Montanelli
I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
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 want to preach to anyone, because if someone preaches to me, I just turn off - I've been preached to my whole life.
When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'
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.
We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different ways to preach. You can preach by praising. You can preach by preaching sermons. You can preach by just giving someone food when they're hungry. There are people who will never darken a church door but they will come to see a play.
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
I made my mistakes, but in all of my years in public life, I have never profited, never profited from public serviceI have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination, because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I have earned everything I have got.
I preach Christ, whether people want to hear that or not. I preach it in the spirit of love, you know, not in a spirit of hate, for whoever wants to listen - black, white, Jew or Gentile. They are all my brothers, you know? They are all my sisters.
A man should practice what he preaches, but a man should also preach what he practices.
The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.
You never know if there is anyone faster than me, but I know my speed and most of the time I use it for good, but I don't know if there is anyone faster.
Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
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.
I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.
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