Air Quote by Boyle Roche

the breeze brought us a faint sound, as of a distant rat, a huge and mystic rat, gnawing, maybe, at the horizon!

— Anne Bosworth Greene

“I smell a rat.”

— Patrick Henry

Tweet tweet I smell a rat

— Kevin McCarty

He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were…

— Jojo Moyes

“Perhpas if I call out to Rat he might hear," said the Mole to himself, but without much hope. Rat! Ratty! O Rat, please…

— William Horwood

“Oh, Frith help me!” said Fiver, trembling. “I can smell him from here. He terrifies me.” “Oh, Fiver, don’t be absurd! He just smells…

— Richard Adams

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

— Sonny Bono

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo!…

— Frederick Douglass

“If not for the rats you could crawl beneath a bush. A bush. A bench. The alliterative universe. Rats too can pass through that…

— Nick Flynn

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and…

— Muhammad Ali

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

— Stella Gibbons

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

— Brad Marchand