The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
James Shirley

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
Mikhail Bakunin

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.
Sun Myung Moon

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

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.
Jerry Only

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.
Heather Locklear

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

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.
John Dryden