Rotten Quotes

300 Rotten quotes by 239 unique authors

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places. — Bernard-Henri Levy
You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you. — D. H. Lawrence
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw… — Henry David Thoreau
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of… — James Russell Lowell
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past... — James Russell Lowell
Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck. — William Saroyan
I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are… — Eddie Redmayne
It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up. — Steve Lacy
I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling… — William Faulkner
When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I… — Billy Idol
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at… — Derek Jarman
I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it. — Jenny Holzer
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post. — Nicholas Culpeper
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten. — Sloane Crosley
I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. — Judi Dench
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who… — Ed McBain
Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten,… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways… — Noam Chomsky
It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically… — Naomi Klein
A rotten case abides no handling. — William Shakespeare
Without work all life goes rotten. — Albert Camus
Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes… — Pablo Neruda
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful. — John Constable
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect… — Wilfrid Sheed

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