#crook

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#crack #crawling #crooked #designer #fixing

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. ↗

— Chanakya

#cut #dealings #down #forest #going

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#crooked #even #stick #straight #turns

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#crooked #english #french #honest #individuals

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#fashioned #made #man #nothing #straight

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#crooked #entirely #made #man #nothing

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care! ↗

— Giuseppe Zangara

#capitalists #care #chair #crook #electric

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#crooked #did #early #gangster #get

When I’m asleep I’m a politician, and when I’m awake I’m a criminal. Throughout the day and night, my mentality never changes.
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— Jarod Kintz

#criminal #crooks #day #mentality #mindset

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#earned #everything #got #i #know