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Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Who's the president of the United States?"
"Who cares? All politicians are crooks
Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.
You bent my words again," says Goto Dengo. "You spoke crooked words and I straightened them,
The great spectacle of human crookedness. It keeps coming at you from all sides, and whether you like it or not, it's the most interesting show in town.
twisted her words into
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it
His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest.
If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [ ... ] live well and die happy.
There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot ... but a crook must have brains.
The desires of the heart ... are as crooked as a corkscrew.
What a deformed thief this fashion is.
The whole f**king system is corrupt.
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.
The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Politicians lie and I am not fooled.
I've been racketeered on.
O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.
Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.
These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.
Are you blind or bought?
I am not a crook.
What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth.
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
An honest politician is an oxymoron.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.
On my word as a liar and cutthroat.
I cannot accept fraud.
A deceitful tongue will always be good at twisting the truth.
& if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint
I can't see straight. But that's okay.
Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself.
False-dealing travels a short road, and surely detected.
You make it hard to think straight.
Honest people have no ethics
Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.
William gave the gallerist a grim look. In my experience, he said, crooks are usually the least dishonest of the bunch. It's not in their interest to deceive you, sir. This is how they make their living. Be patient.
Mischief Managed.
An honest politician is one that stays bought.
A corruption of intentions.
I lie, I cheat, and I steal.
The truth will make you odd.
Money makes even bastards legitimate.
Trying to straighten the question mark!
Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.
From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
Even good people are obliged to deceive.
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.
To stand up straight - not straightened
When everything's twisted, what's normal ends up looking weird too.
She was incurably dishonest.
the Portuguese adage holds true: God writes straight on crooked lines.
Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil.
There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.
We live in blatantly corrupt times.
He who wins through fraud is not a winner.
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
And I twisted it wrong just to make it right
Had to leave myself behind
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
I long for the days of good honest crooks.
Crooked Warden," said Chains. "Just this morning I was suffering from the delusion that I was handing out the educations here.
Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.
Dishonesty is like a boomerang. Just when you think all is well, it hits you in the back of your head.
Honey, you may have the face of an angel, but that halo of yours is awfully crooked.
Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.
Who makes the fairest show means the most deceit.
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
Turn my head, and you may go where you want. I turn it again, you will stay till you rot. I have no face, but I live or die by my crooked teeth - who am I?
A man who doesn't know the truth is just an idiot, but a man who knows the truth and calls it a lie is a crook.
History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.
We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.
We've had crooks from the beginning of time ... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
Ruined by the truth
Politics, it's all corrupt!
My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the world's disgrace, Justice is mocked, and I have lost my case! A scoundrel whose dishonesty is notorious Emerges from another lie victorious!
Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.
The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent.
The bad scorn the good . . .
and the crooked despise the straight."
~Greville
It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.
Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.
Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.
honestly--then dishonestly.
Cheaters, I thought.
If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
What I did, when I did it, was honest; now, through changed conditions, what I did may or may not be called honest. Politics demand, therefore, that I be brought to trial; but what is really being brought to trial is the system I represented.
She likes a rigged game.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Aberrant is not abhorrent
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.
I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail.