If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion…

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)

— George R. R. Martin

“A grey man,” she said. “Neither white nor black, but partaking of both. Is that what you are, Ser Davos?” “What if I am?…

— George R.R. Martin

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and…

— Zhuangzi

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to…

— Hannah Arendt

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

— Samuel Johnson

I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their…

— Miguel de Cervantes

If you think of the ice caps as the fridge of our planet, if your fridge at home died, the food you eat would…

— Orlando Bloom

“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.”

— Geraldine Brooks

As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary…

— Greil Marcus

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly…

— Robert Benchley

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the…

— Danny Baker

“An apple with a rotten core can only last so long,” he”

— Morgan Rice

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold…

— Peter Cook