There Was a Crooked Man is a nursery rhyme. The phrase can also refer to:
- There Was a Croked Man (film), 1960 film featuring Norman Wisdom
- There Was A Crooked Man (TV play), a live television drama by Kelly Roos, presented in 1950 on the television anthology Westinghouse Studio One
- There Was a Crooked Man..., a 1970 western film starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda
- There was a Crooked Man: the Poems of Lex Banning, a collection by Lex Banning
Famous quotes containing the words crooked and/or man:
“A wreathed garland of deserved praise,
Of praise deserved, unto Thee I give,
I give to Thee, who knowest all my ways,
My crooked winding ways, wherein I live,”
—George Herbert (15931633)
“It were sad to gaze on the blessèd and no man I loved of old there;
I throw down the chain of small stones! when life in my body has ceased,
I will go to Caoilte, and Conan, and Bran, Sceolan, Lomair,
And dwell in the house of the Fenians, be they in flames or at feast.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)