Quotes About Crooks

In appearance though, Darrell seemed anything but a criminal. Erin was still naive enough to believe that all crooks had bad teeth, greasy hair and jailhouse tattoos. She assumed that cleancut, good-looking men enjoyed the same natural advantages as cleancut, good-lucking women: the world treated you better, and consequently there was no reason for unwholesome behavior.

War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.

Bxastxard SBI securities has done such thing on its web trading platform that most of its keys are not functional so you can't see the current position of your transaction. This is the reason why brokers are biggest crooks who want to cheat their clients only

We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

Stay home and the crooks win. They get the night, by default and concession, the night which should rightly belong to all of us.

Strivers grasped for something better-and crooks schemes about how to manipulate the present system. The world as it might be versus the world as it was. But perhaps Carney was being too stark. Plenty of crooks were strivers, and plenty of strivers bent the law.

But I was in a hurry, so I let him drive. I wasn't thinking about formalities then. I knew I ought to get back home quickly. Anyhow, he was so respectful I knew he was all right." "Hmm! There are respectful crooks sometimes! But never mind; go on.

One of the two adversaries is a rug salesman, the other an arms salesman: they have neither the same logic nor the same strategy, even though they are both crooks. There is not enough communication between them to enable them to make war upon each other.

History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.

fishing equipment and lawn mowers, bought the goods in one branch of Kmart and then returned them in other branches for a full refund. Like most crooks with a workable scam, Virgil Freer did it once

I happen to like forthright, up-front crooks and villains, and I gloried in finding some of them in Hollywood.

Or lastly, four steps farther along the passage, a skeleton key, and an innocent air if he were discovered in the wrong bedroom. But that was not his way. It was not his way at all. "Everyone must do as his nature bids," as Gaigern had tried to explain to his confederates, that little band of crooks whom for two and a half years he had kept balanced on the verge of mutiny.

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.

We're victims, and we're portrayed as crooks.

Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to express my deep abhorrence If I caught anyone preferring Art To Life and Love and being Pure-in-heart. I lived with crooks but seldom was molested; The Pure-in-heart can never be arrested.

Take a plunge, take a plunge . . . they're all crooks and gamblers anyway . . . take a plunge and come up with your hands full, pockets full, bankaccount full, vaults full of money. If I only dared take the risk. Fool to waste your time fuming about it.

It's a perfect storm for corruption. You start with people who are not that sophisticated, and suddenly they're raking in more profits than are imaginable. They attract all manner of crooks and con men who want to help.

The Kushner position was not helped by the fact that the president had been gleefully telling multiple people that Jared could solve the Middle East problem because the Kushners knew all the crooks in Israel.)

Your Paris is only a mudhole." To which Vautrin responds with a new generalization: "And a very strange mudhole," he says. "Those whose carriage gets muddy in its streets are respectable, those who get muddy on foot are crooks. Have the misfortune to snatch some trifle and you are put on display in the law courts. Steal a million, you're noted in the drawing rooms as a man of honor.