Quotes About Crooked

Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes.

I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

A St. Trinian's girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute, crooked, sordid, lacking morals of any sort and capable of any excess. She would also be well-spoken, even well-mannered and polite. Sardonic, witty and very amusing. She would be good company. In short: typically human and, despite everything, endearing.

People have too much faith in large organizations," he said. "They trust the accounting firms, which you should never trust because they're incompetent. On a best day they're incompetent, on a bad day they're crooked, and aiding and abetting the fraud, looking the other way.

And the Crooked Man heard her dreams, because that was where he wandered. His place was the land of the imagination, the world where stories began.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.

Honor to the government, and obedience, and also to the crooked government! So desires good sleep. How can I help it, if power likes to walk on crooked legs?

Everything straight lieth," murmured the dwarf, contemptuously. "All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

The sun snagged on his crooked skin.

O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart. A

By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.

He smiled. Not one of the dazzlers he used to get his own way. Just a smile, a little one kind of crooked. And Kethe, it was like I'd never been made at him at all.

Jassaline's little potion seems to have brought up every meal I've had in the past five years." said Locke. "Nothing left to spit up but my naked soul. Make sure it isn't floating around in one of those before you toss them, right?" "I think I see it," Jean said. "Nasty, crooked little thing it is too; you're better off with it floating out to sea.

Master Thorn... you have a curiously tender heart, for a thief of your appetites." "I'm a sworn brother of the Nameless Thirteenth, the Crooked Warden, the Benefactor," said Locke. "I'm a priest.

Crooked Warden," said Chains. "Just this morning I was suffering from the delusion that I was handing out the educations here.

Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

Normally, Richard was the kind of guy I disliked, someone born and raised plush: looks, charm, smarts, probably money. These men were never very interesting to me; they had no edges, and they were usually cowards. They instinctively fled any situation that might cause them embarrassment or awkwardness. But Richard didn't bore me. Maybe because his grin was a little crooked. Or because he made his living dealing in ugly things.

These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.

You know, this won't be an easy thing, Adrien." An officer-involved shooting was not going to be fun, righteous or not. "The investigation you mean?" "No." He gave me that crooked smile. "No, I don't mean that.

But when will Filipinas ever be free from its leaders who are wealthy and crooked, in whom we have put so much trust?" -The Cripple