Rotten Quotes
300 Rotten quotes by 239 unique authors
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
— Henry Louis Gates
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My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he…
— Joan Collins
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
— Billy Connolly
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I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.
— Les Dawson
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It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
— Phyllis Diller
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
— Samuel Johnson
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Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
— Jack Kevorkian
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
— D. H. Lawrence
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I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't…
— John Lydon
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'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also…
— Steve Martin
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No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.
— Michelle Malkin
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Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of…
— Dylan Moran
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There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.
— Joe Pantoliano
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We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to…
— Anne Roiphe
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I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
— Ann Rule
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These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in…
— Douglas Sirk
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent…
— Wilbur Smith
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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
— Billy Sunday
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The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty…
— Sid Vicious
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Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler.…
— Don Van Vliet
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The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
— Vivienne Westwood
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The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip…
— Vivienne Westwood
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For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all,…
— David Sedaris
Who Wrote These Rotten Quotes
239 authors contributed a total of 300 Rotten Quotes, led by these top contributors: