Quotes About Crooked

Have you anything to say to me now, Madam?" he demanded. "Your wig is crooked," I said, and closed my eyes again.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.

real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut.

Yes, okay, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have admonished Mr. Rudy, and I ask you to continue as if the word 'crooked' had not been uttered." At that moment, and for hours to come, the dominant word in the jurors' thoughts and discussions was, and would be, of course, "crooked.

Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.

small, hand-sewn pillow, with one word embroidered crookedly on its front. Loveawoo, it said.

You should be the model for all men, But your affairs are crooked! The standard for all men cheats the whole land! The vintner of evil waters his plot with crimes, Until his plot sprouts falsehood, His estate flows with crimes!

So gosh-darned crooked, he could stand in the shadow of a corkscrew and nevuh see the sun. So slippery, gittin' ahold of him is like grabbing an eel in an oil slick. So low a critter, Ah had to drain the swamp just to find him.

a mournful of stained, crooked teem,

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

Every valley shall be filled in, and every mountain and hill made low. The crooked ways shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.

so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world