Words matter. These are the best Crook Quotes from famous people such as Giuseppe Zangara, Jerry Heller, Gerard Batten, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Charlie Chaplin, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You’re one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!
I’m a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.
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.
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.
I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.
I wasn’t overtly ambitious, or tried to get films by hook or crook. I always did things at my own pace.
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.
Italy is a tough country to be a comedian in – I can’t invent stuff like this. Nearly eighty crooks in Parliament – that’s about one crook in twelve. It’s worse than Scampia, the most dangerous Naples slum, which is infested by the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. There, the criminals are only one in fifteen!
Prince Charles has his foibles, but he is not a crook, not a bully, and not a hypocrite.
It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
Choices had become limited post ‘Crook’ and I was being offered films that had me play second fiddle. I realized that would take me nowhere, so I waited.
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 just want you to know you aren’t going to church with a crook.
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.
I am not a crook.
Although nannies who cover more than one generation are rare, those like Veronica Crook – who looked after me and now looks after my four children – are pearls of great price. They provide a continuity and stability for a family that is of inestimable value for the child and, indeed, the man.
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 know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I’m some kind of a crook.
Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn’t have the KGB do the Watergate job.
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.’
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.
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.
You have to keep the audience glued by hook or crook.
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.
There are people who say, ‘Oh, he’s a crook.’ But I’m not a crook.
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.
The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
Novelty is the universal cry – novelty by hook or by crook! It is an exceedingly common mania among people of inordinate wealth to exact incessantly new or so-called new dishes.
There’s a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy’s brains out. I’m a crook.
President Obama has now had his Nixonian ‘I’m not a crook’ moment, taking to the airwaves to feign angry indignation about the Internal Revenue Service targeting his enemies while denying any knowledge whatsoever of what his administration had been up to.
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.