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Quotes About Rotten

I call it rotten work, springing unexpected offspring on a fellow at the eleventh hour like this.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
But crossing into Louisiana I got this haunted little rill of feeling -- there was moss and mud everywhere and an inexplicable, hollow sensation that Louisiana is what would be left of the South after it has been nuked -- that I and everything around me were irretrievably rotten.
~ Padgett Powell
Beneath the quilt she is no more than a bundle of rotten sticks
~ William Faulkner
To claim that the supernatural and irrational form the basic characteristics of religion is much the same as noticing only the rotten apples and then claiming that the basic features of the fruit named apple are a flaccid bitterness and a harmful effect produced in the stomach.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The objective prerequisites for the proletarian revolution have not only 'ripened'; they have begun to get somewhat rotten. Without a socialist revolution, in the next historical period at that, a catastrophe threatens the whole culture of mankind.
~ Leon Trotsky
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
~ Hannah Arendt
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
~ Jasper Fforde
The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
ME, THAT'S WHO! I'm the victim here! Someone should be all heroically trying to help ME right all the wrongs! Where's my rotten cavalry of loyal idiots?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded
~ Paulo Coelho
In the grand scheme of a trillion planets in the universe we're just not that damn important anyway. And humans are rotten to the core.
~ David Baldacci
There's small choice in rotten apples.
~ William Shakespeare
An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
~ William Shakespeare
Cuando las manzanas están podridas, es difícil escoger.
~ William Shakespeare
I may be rotten, but my one virtue is that I'm not a killer. I wanted to frighten you, but I never wanted you dead. I never wanted anyone dead.
~ Holly Black
everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
You see how it shocks and horrifies you? Our religion is based on the holy books, and you cannot conceive that they're not perfect. You're afraid that if one lie exists, the entire fabric could be rotten. - Ware
~ Iris Johansen
Audiences just naturally hate me on screen. I could play a role in a tuxedo, and people would think I was rotten. You can do much more with a villain part.
~ Lee Van Cleef
I would love to, on one project, play a villain. Any kind of villain. Any kind of antagonist. Somebody who's just rotten but fun, or the anti-hero.
~ Kendrick Sampson
Alas, poor Yorick! he said. She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Horrific as it was, the present dark, I was afraid to leave it for the other, permanent dark – jelly and bloat, the muddy pit. I had seen the shadow of it on Bunny's face – stupid terror; the whole world opening upside down; his life exploding in a thunder of crows and the sky expanding empty over his stomach like a white ocean. Then nothing. Rotten stumps, sowbugs crawling in the fallen leaves. Dirt and dark.
~ Donna Tartt
First, we all stop listening, so they have to make it ever more horrendous to capture our attention. Secondly, we all become even more convinced that everything has gone rotten, and there is no hope at all, no hope at all. In a world of no hope the motto is semper fidelis, which means in translation, "Every week is screw-your-buddy week and his wife too, if he's out of town.
~ John D. MacDonald
If something did happen to Bowden, how would that affect your chances?" Lucas asked. "What a rotten, cynical question to ask. I'm proud of you," Henderson said.
~ John Sandford