Quotes About Vermin

#1. The only thing that might attract vermin is the rancid expression on your face," she said. "I was having a brilliant morning until you came in to sour the air."
"Ah, well. We are born to suffer.

Elizabeth Camden

#2. If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off.

Simone De Beauvoir

#3. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Frederick Rolfe

#5. [Asteroids are] the vermin of the skies.
[Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs.]

Walter Baade

#6. A man of God is seeking a situation to exterminate nocturnal vermin. The fee is fifty pounds, half of which will be due in advance.

Brooklyn Ann

#7. When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it.

Ian Pattison

#9. I liked this shop very much, it has a cynical and obstinate look, it insolently recalled the rights of dirt and vermin, only two paces from the most costly church in France.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Aldous Huxley

#11. Are you lishening, my pretty vermin, are you lishening?

Mervyn Peake

#12. He (the British soldier) is generally beloved by two sorts of Companion, in whores and lice, for both these Vermin are great admirers of a Scarlet Coat.

Richard Holmes

#13. Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.

Henry Fox

#14. What people don't understand about deer is that they're vermin. They're giant, furry cockroaches. They invade a space, reproduce like hell, and eat everything in sight.

J. Ryan Stradal

#15. That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)

Jamie Delano

#16. If they were shocked, then Gregor was no longer responsible.' This passage betray's Gregor's premeditation and points to the idea that Gregor wanted to change into a monstrous vermin- something incapable of working in an office.

Franz Kafka

#17. We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other ... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

Mark Twain

#18. Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin.

Charles Baudelaire

#19. VLADIMIR: Moron!
ESTRAGON: Vermin!
VLADIMIR: Abortion!
ESTRAGON: Morpion!
VLADIMIR: Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON: Curate!
VLADIMIR: Cretin!
ESTRAGON: (with finality). Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.

Samuel Beckett

#20. What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods and vermin is ideology.

Terry Eagleton

#21. Hrist and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith.

Martin Luther

#22. No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Aneurin Bevan

#23. I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms ... I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love, and the various vermin.

Theodore Roethke

#24. There were some piled furs in the corner, but they were gross and old, and Zuzana was pretty sure that a variety of otherworldly vermin were living out rich, multigenerational sagas in them.

Laini Taylor

#25. No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

Olaf Stapledon

#26. These people all woke up this morning and reminded themselves to be human beings. Not everyone knows how to do that. No vermin, my people. Real human beings.

Jami Attenberg

#27. If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

Adolf Hitler

#28. Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive cleanliness.

William Carlos Williams

#29. I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

Jonathan Swift

#30. Democracy, to maintain itself, must repeatedly conquer every cell and corner of the nation. How many of our public institutions and private businesses, our schools, hospitals, and domestic hearths are in reality little fascist states where freedom of speech is more rigorously excluded than vermin?

Jacques Barzun

#31. See, the Germans aren't kidding about the Jews. They're cooking us down to soap over there. They think we're vermin and should be 'sterminated and our corpses turned into something useful.

Herman Wouk

#32. Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime - the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.

John Irving

#33. Call up your vermin to your back, sir, and fall on! The sooner the clash begins, the sooner ye'll taste this steel throughout your vitals.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#34. AS GREGOR SAMSA AWOKE from unsettling dreams one morning, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.

Anonymous

#35. Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil.

Horace Walpole

#36. Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again ... I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O'Neill were laughing.

Woody Allen

#37. Never mind gas masks and fallout shelters in the event of biological warfare. Many New Yorkers move from place to place equipped with the essentials of vermin assault weaponry: mouse traps, roach spray, and sticky tapes. In some neighborhoods, it's a must.

Isabel Lopez

#38. Humans aren't a protected class. (Acheron)
Really? (Jaden)
Yeah. Savitar shares your 'all humans are vermin' mind set. (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#39. It's a jolly little junior vermin!

Brian Jacques

#40. Black tenants smell and attract vermin.

Donald Sterling

#41. I fear the vermin that shall undermineSenate and citadel and school and shrine.

Edwin Markham

#42. The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

Henry Ward Beecher

#43. The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#44. The damn vermin are so numerous that I am afraid to sneeze, for fear the damned lice would regard it as gong for dinner, and eat me up - Robert Cobb Kennedy

Tobin T. Buhk

#45. One morning Gregor Samsa found himself, in bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin.

Franz Kafka

#46. All schools have their skeletons. St Oswald's is no exception. Most of the time, we try our best to keep them in the closet. But this time, the only recourse we have is to throw open all the closets, light as many bulbs as we can and catch the vermin as it comes out.

Joanne Harris

#47. Certainly the Ripper liked to believe he was actually doing the world a favor by ridding it of "vermin," as he put it. In his mind, his victims were "whores" who got what they deserved.

Patricia Cornwell

#48. ...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#49. Without the bargain he'd made he'd still be rotting in that North African jail with all the other vermin.

Toni Anderson

#50. Sookie: Is Eric around?"
Pam: "He is enthralling the vermin,

Charlaine Harris

#51. The "west"-what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles ... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?

Emil Cioran

#52. Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all.

Richard Aldington

#53. There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

Michel De Montaigne

#54. Because the rubber, too, is bulletproof. And so relentless is the wind that it rakes the street, pushing along this burden of crippled vermin, trundling this tide of suffering always in the wake of the Town Car as it reaches Spaulding Square. Fissures of lightning

Chuck Palahniuk

#55. I pulled the Net chip out of my head, cutting her off. The chip was long and white, with many metal legs; cupped in my hand, it looked like some pale, crawling thing that you'd find living under a rock. Vermin.

Raphael Carter

#56. It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

R.L. LaFevers

#57. Flattery will get you nowhere. (In response to Wally George calling his band vile and evil.)

Nikolas Schreck