And the Russians certainly
And the Russians certainly don’t have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she’s a crook. And that’s me, the nice American. The assumption that you can’t make money honestly is a killer. Esther Dyson
Crooks
But complex people are
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. Elizabeth Bowen
I long for the
I long for the days of good honest crooks. Edward Bates
I can’t tell by
I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook. Frank Perdue
I happen to think
I happen to think that Jesus was the greatest hero of all time. I don’t think you could invent that kind of a hero. He had it all – everything that the human spirit could yearn for. There is nothing that man ever said or did, by word or deed that is evil. That is … Read more
Very well then, better
Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan. F. Scott Fitzgerald
A real foolproof way
A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following Duncan Sheik
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie,
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. Douglas Adams
From the very beginning
From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he’s a genius. Black businessman uses them he’s a crook. That’s the way it is. Don King
In Chicago, we love
In Chicago, we love our crooks! David Mamet