By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember
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.
I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
It would be one of the most irritating experiences in the world to do a lot of work to uncover a fraud and then at have it go from X to 3X and at h the crooks happily partying with your money while you're meeting margin calls. Why would you want to go within hailing distance of that?
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 cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.
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.
Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.
A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
I don't know why we'd need so many more prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate.
In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.
I gazed into the mirror. . . There, staring at me, was the pallid, flabby-mouthed face of a crook
Well, I'm not a crook.
Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.
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.
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.
These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.