Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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.
In Chicago, we love our crooks!
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
I long for the days of good honest crooks.
Richard Nixon was a Republican presidential candidate who encouraged crooks to commit espionage against the Democratic National Committee in order to gain an edge in a presidential election.
I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
Crooks are early adopters.
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person
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.
The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.
Hillary Clinton shouldn't be allowed to run for president. She shouldn't be allowed. She's a crook.
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 don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot. . . but a crook must have brains.
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
