Top 106 Crook Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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

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

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

Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.

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

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

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 never thought 'Crook' wouldn't work with the audience - in fact, no actor ever has that in mind especially when it's a debut film. It was shocking initially but I had to move on.

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

Well, I'm not a crook.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

I planned for my first film 'Crook' - that it would be a smash hit and I would be an overnight sensation. You know how newcomers are, they live in this whole fairytale, like, 'Oh my God, everything's going to be so good and perfect.'

I am not a crook.

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.

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

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

Prince Charles has his foibles, but he is not a crook, not a bully, and not a hypocrite.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

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

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

Once I set my mind towards something, it's going to happen. By hook or by crook.

Bo Schembechler will go down in history as the greatest football coach. He knows the game, he works hard. And he's not a crook.

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

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

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

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.

I wasn't overtly ambitious, or tried to get films by hook or crook. I always did things at my own pace.

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.

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

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.

The British establishment sold its soul long ago and welcomes any foreign villain, crook and gangster that has dirty money to invest in the UK, buying luxury homes to fuel the upward spiral of house prices.

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

I am happy to have done both 'Crook' and 'Kya Super Kool Hai Hum' but 'Crook' did not do well and one can't say what went wrong.

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

A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

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.

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.

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

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

A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following

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.

It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.

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.

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

You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.

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?.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

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.