1. "I still think Barty must be a crook,"
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Carolyn Keene, The Haunted Bridge
2. "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter."
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Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
3. "Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
4. "By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember"
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Homer, The Odyssey
5. "Hollywood has always loved a good crook and Bugsy palled around with big-name actors, studio heads, and millionaires."
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Richard Kadrey, Killing Pretty
6. "I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops."
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Quote by Tom Clancy
7. "greet him with gentle words and caresses and welcome him onto their bed, where he would curl, purring, warm in the crook of a bent knee."
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Erin Hunter, Into the Wild
8. "Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added."
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Anthony Horowitz, Skeleton Key
9. "Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches."
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Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
10. "There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says "yes" you know he is a crook."
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Quote by Groucho Marx