Quotes About Crookedness

I remember I once told him: 'Women's minds are so petty, so crooked!' 'Like the feet of Chinese women,' he replied. 'Has not the pressure of society cramped them into pettiness and crookedness? They are but pawns of the fate which gambles with them. What responsibility have they of their own?

Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

ADUNCITY  (ADU'NCITY)   n.s.[aduncitas, Lat.]Crookedness; flexure inwards; hookedness. There can be no question, but the aduncity of the pounces, and beaks of the hawks, is the cause of the great and habitual immorality of those animals.Arbuthnot and Pope'sMart. Scrib.

Bear ever towards the contrary extreme of that whereunto we are by nature inclined; like unto the rowing against the stream, or making a wand straight by bending him contrary to his natural crookedness.

This peasant said; He who should rule by law commands theft, Who then will punish crime? The straightener of another's crookedness Supports another's crime.

to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

The way of a guilty man is crooked, but the conduct of the innocent is upright.