Rotten Quotes

300 Rotten quotes by 239 unique authors

Mob law is the most forcible expression of an abnormal public opinion; it shows that society is rotten to the core. — Timothy Thomas Fortune
There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples. — William Shakespeare
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is… — Fulton J. Sheen
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also… — Dean Acheson
Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking,… — Cleveland Amory
I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse… — Margaret Atwood
There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn… — Gloria Steinem
It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out… — Louise Hay
But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous… — Friedrich Engels
A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high full of the… — Michael Rapaport
Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core. — Jamie McKelvie
A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one. — Charles Spurgeon
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to… — Dick York
Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and wouldn't know what… — Dorothy Dunnett
It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your… — James Agee
I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten. — Ezra Pound
These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer… — Chuck Palahniuk
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come… — Kathy Acker
It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet… — Jean Baudrillard
When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of… — Amiri Baraka
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach… — Dorothy Day
I could write stories just as rotten. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the… — Ella Leya

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