This world is rotten. The rotten should die.

We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of…

— St. Catherine of Siena

Too much wit makes the world rotten.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

— Nicholas Culpeper

“If the foundations are rotten - everything's rotten.”

— Agatha Christie

“I think the human race is pretty rotten. The more I see of it, the more rotten it becomes”

— Jane Carter Woodrow

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

— Mitch Albom

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use…

— Alfred de Vigny

Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,…

— N.D. Wilson

“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