Crooks Quotes

• The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Noir, Sam Spade, Falcon

  Dashiell Hammett (2007). “Vintage Hammett”, p.151, Vintage

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• 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

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  "Donald Trump, a Populist for the Rich" by Jim Hightower, progressive.org. October 9, 2016.

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• It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Persistence, Thug

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• 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

  People, President, Wells

  Speech, Orlando, Fla., 17 Nov. 1973

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• I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.

  Tom Hanks

  Liars, Caring, Thinking

  "Tom Hanks: I'm not always a nice guy". Interview with Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. June 5, 2012.

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• 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.

  William Wordsworth

  Money, Business, Men

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• Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

  James Carville

  Government, Political, Police

  James Carville (2003). “Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Suicide, Law, Break

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

  James Dean

  World, Way, Conditioning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

  Cory Doctorow

  Calling, Want, Treats

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• 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

  Real, Play, Roots

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• Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Guy, Wealthy

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• 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

  Taxation, Taxes Funny, Levels

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Successful, Monarchs, Destitute

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• Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

  Unknown

  Religious, Stupid People, Men

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

  Ronald Biggs

  Blow, Differences, Guy

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• The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Expensive

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Well, I'm not a crook.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wells

  Speech, Orlando, Fla., 17 Nov. 1973

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• In Chicago, we love our crooks!

  David Mamet

  Chicago

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

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Brain, Honest

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “The Lower Depths”, p.78, Courier Dover Publications

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• 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

  Ridiculous, Wells, Dictionary

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• 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

  Baby, Liars, Mean

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

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Detectives, Unlawful

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• 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

  Nice, Eyebrows, Killers

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• 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

  Passion, Gun, Law

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