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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

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

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

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook. — Harry S. Truman

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

The Indian is a human being. — George Crook

But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes. — George Crook

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. — Mackenzie Crook

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

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful! — Latif Mercado

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

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

[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow. — Catherine Crook De Camp

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

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

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

Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living. — Catherine Crook De Camp

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

Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook. — Neal Boortz

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Well, I'm not a crook. — Richard M. Nixon

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

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

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows. — George Crook

Crook your finger;
they'll come closer.
Pull the covers tighter to your chin;
in beside you they'll creep. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant

The problem with the dead is that they don't keep secrets. Eventually they tell on themselves. — Elizabeth Crook

Tears are nothing to be ashamed of at all.
-Grandma Shaw — Connie Brummel Crook

I am not a crook. — Richard M. Nixon

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

She is the key to this mystery, a key that I will turn, by hook or by crook. — Frances Hardinge

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

My son thinks I'm hilarious, but he's only 1. — Mackenzie Crook

Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. — Dashiell Hammett

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

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

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

Maybe that was what millions could do
nail a satisfied smirk to one's face. — V.C. Andrews

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

I can't tell by looking in your eyes whether you're a priest or a crook. — Frank Perdue

That little school in the crook of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin. He'd — Chad Harbach

I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem. — Mackenzie Crook

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

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

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

How to catch a crook? Ask him if he knows anybody strait. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair. — Mackenzie Crook

Their hatred of the Germans was quieter and more deadly than I have ever seen before. — David M. Crook

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

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

I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well. — George Crook

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

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

I still think Barty must be a crook, — Carolyn Keene

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues. — Mackenzie 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. — Richard M. Nixon

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

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

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

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

A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing. — Anthony Liccione

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

I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. — Richard M. Nixon

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

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