Top 34 Rottenness Quotes

#1. One who provokes a person by speaking has only called to the surface the passion that was already there. The person who becomes disturbed is like a rotten loaf of bread, which looks all right outside, but inside is mouldy, so that if anyone breaks it its rottenness appears. - Dorotheos

Dee Pennock

Rottenness Quotes #41407
#2. From my new release, Cry for Me.
This is Bryen talking.
"Stop it, T! I knew; my God I predicted you would do this! Start blaming yourself for the sins of my sick brother. He's left a stench of rottenness from here to Illinois!

Toni Mariani

Rottenness Quotes #105911
#3. Love, my lads! And above all, love pretty, charming girls; they are the remedy for evil, they give a sweet smell to rottenness, they exchange life for death ... Love, my lads!

Machado De Assis

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#4. Let the oldest saint look well to the fundamentals of his piety, for grey heads may cover black hearts: and let not the young professor despise the word of warning, for the greenness of youth may be joined to the rottenness of hypocrisy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#5. The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

Karl Kautsky

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#6. If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

Henry David Thoreau

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#7. A cloud, the exact color of the boy's hat and shaped like a turnip, had descended over the sun, and another, worse looking, crouched behind the car. Mr. Shiftlet felt that the rottenness of the world was about to engulf him.

Flannery O'Connor

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#8. I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

Etty Hillesum

Rottenness Quotes #444511
#9. As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Juliana Hatfield

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#10. If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and six months less four days, isn't it true to say that for nine years I possessed a goodly apple?

Ford Madox Ford

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#11. He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

D.H. Lawrence

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#12. Why? Why is there a crisis in literature? Because of lies and rottenness. Simplicity and sincerity have been replaced by obsfucation and pretense. Men, of course. They love to create mystery where none exists. It's the way they think.

Alexander McCall Smith

Rottenness Quotes #611090
#13. It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Ivan Turgenev

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#14. Greater are those virtues within us than all the rottenness in the world.

Sunday Adelaja

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#15. The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

Marcus Aurelius

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#16. She felt like an angel in heaven, whom God had given the only thing truly worth having, and who, through the rottenness of her own nature, consciously chose her own damnation in Hell.

Hannah Heat

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#17. Hopes have precarious life.
They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

George Eliot

Rottenness Quotes #750990
#18. I love you, rotten,
Delicious rottenness.
... wonderful are the hellish experiences,
Orphic, delicate
Dionysos of the Underworld.

D.H. Lawrence

Rottenness Quotes #841175
#19. A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones. Proverbs 14:30

Joyce Meyer

Rottenness Quotes #849673
#20. A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#21. I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world's goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world's happiness.

Charles E. Coughlin

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#22. The perfection of rottenness.

William James

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#23. Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people's altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal one's own rottenness and moral poverty is only possible for a very vain, base, and nasty creature.

Anton Chekhov

Rottenness Quotes #1102462
#24. Though what is 'Romeo and Juliet' after all?" he added after a short pause. "The beauty of poetry and holiness of love are simply the roses under which they try to hide its rottenness. Romeo is just the same sort of animal as all the rest of us.

Anton Chekhov

Rottenness Quotes #1112181
#25. Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

Mark Twain

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#26. Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.

Samuel Smiles

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#27. So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Beatrix Potter

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#28. Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

Abraham Lincoln

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#29. Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.

Percy Dearmer

Rottenness Quotes #1400827
#30. Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office]," he wrote to a friend, "a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#31. Anyone who has tasted rotten fruit is right to object to rottenness. But they're wrong to object to fruit itself! There's good fruit and bad fruit. There's righteous happiness and sinful happiness.

Randy Alcorn

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#32. We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Charles Spurgeon

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#33. If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

John Milton

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#34. The rottenness comes from within.

Agatha Christie

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