Crooked Man

Crooked Man may refer to:

  • "The Crooked Man", alternate title of "The Adventure of the Crooked Man", a Sherlock Holmes short story
  • "The Crooked Man", The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series) first season episode
  • "The Crooked Man", an episode of the animated show Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
  • "The Crooked Man", The Adventures of Ellery Queen television episode
  • The Crooked Man, a 2003 British television movie starring Ross Kemp
  • "Crooked Man", nickname of Marvel Comics character Mad Jim Jaspers
  • A Crooked Man, a novel by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
  • "The Crooked Man", a Melinda Snodgrass short story in Card Sharks (anthology)
  • "The Crooked Man", a Charles Beaumont short story
  • "The Crooked Man", a song from Western Approaches (album)
  • "Crooked Man", an As You Were (album) track
  • The Crooked Man, a Hellboy limited series by Mike Mignola and Richard Corben.
  • Crooked Man, a 2011 international stand-up tour by Tommy Tiernan.

Famous quotes containing the words crooked man, crooked and/or man:

    “There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,
    He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile:
    He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
    And they all lived together in a little crooked house.”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile (l. 1–4)

    “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 (1822–1896)

    “The question for the country now is how to secure a more equal distribution of property among the people. There can be no republican institutions with vast masses of property permanently in a few hands, and large masses of voters without property.... Let no man get by inheritance, or by will, more than will produce at four per cent interest an income ... of fifteen thousand dollars] per year, or an estate of five hundred thousand dollars.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)