Top 74 Something Rotten Quotes
#1. Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.
Diana Wynne Jones
#2. There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says ... it's payback time!
Jasper Fforde
#3. What doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger. It just fucks you up something rotten.
Shane Dunphy
#4. There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
Karl Marx
#5. Symptoms are never just secondary failures or distortions of the basically sound System - they are indicators that there is something "rotten" (antagonistic, inconsistent) in the very heart of the System.
Slavoj Zizek
#6. Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.
Julia Cameron
#7. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#8. It would leave a little rotten spot, right here." I push my fist into the soft space beneath my rib cage. "Something that would only get bigger and darker with time.
Amy Engel
#9. The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
John Quincy Adams
#11. The past is a dark house, and we have only torches with dying batteries. It's probably best not to spend too much time in there in case the rotten floor gives way beneath our feet.
Mal Peet
#12. Look, the reason is security, a subconscious need for security. I had a rotten childhood. Two bottles at once fills a void that needs filling. Maybe. I'm not sure.
Charles Bukowski
#13. I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell
Laura Wiess
#14. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.
Rosamund Hodge
#16. For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.
Nicholas Culpeper
#17. Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.
Ann Nocenti
#18. As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#19. I would have saved them. But the lie tastes rotten on my tongue. Would anything have held William from me? Would anything have held my mother back. Anything? All bonds can be slipped, all thorns torn free. It's simply a matter of pain, and of what you're prepared to lose.
Mark Lawrence
#20. Since the Gods of hangovers ignore you I hope the Deities of STD's bestow you with rotten crotch.
Sherri Desbois
#21. 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 a parasite that feeds on goodness.
Fulton J. Sheen
#22. I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.
Henry Louis Gates
#23. If something did happen to Bowden, how would that affect your chances?" Lucas asked. "What a rotten, cynical question to ask. I'm proud of you," Henderson said.
John Sandford
#24. 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 wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll ... something that acknowledged my ambition.
Billy Idol
#25. Matson threw up his skinny arms to protect himself as something huge and quick shoved its way between the bars, like a big dog going through a rotten picket fence, and engulfed him.
Jim Butcher
#26. If you would not be forgotten
When you are old and rotten
Either write something worth reading
Or do something worth writing about.
Benjamin Franklin
Edna Bell-Pearson
#27. Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'
Adyashanti
#28. If your faith is so shaky that it can be undermined by books that challenge it, then something is rotten at the core.
Rysa Walker
#29. It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again.
Brad Meltzer
#30. Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. Christ, even my staff have noticed that something's rotten in the state of fucking Denmark.
E.L. James
#33. The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.
Hayao Miyazaki
#34. War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#35. If life seems jolly rotten, There's something you've forgotten.
Graham Chapman
#36. I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.
P.G. Wodehouse
#37. I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.
Butch Hancock
#38. What a feat, she thinks, to want to marry every woman he fucks. He is so good at being in love that Ernest Hemingway makes a rotten husband.
Naomi Wood
#39. I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased.
Keisha Keenleyside
#40. I will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religous. Nothing could divert them from the regular and faithful performace of the pieties enjoined b ythe Church
Mark Twain
#41. I am nauseated by all these rotten people in Europe - and these fucking "democracies" are not worth even a crumb.
Frida Kahlo
#42. Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.
Jamie McKelvie
#43. 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
#44. Greaser ... greaser ... greaser ... " Steve singsonged. "O victim of environment, underprivileged, rotten, no-count hood!
S.E. Hinton
#45. Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
Joseph Conrad
#46. On every family tree you have two kinds of fruit; ripe and rotten.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#47. I voted for Lula and Dilma
not vote for more
had to yield to the facts
that the PT
they represent
this rotten ....
today they
represent the worst
already existed in our policy ...
Ariano Suassuna
#48. Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.
Erma Bombeck
#49. Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.
Rick Riordan
#50. Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.
Theophile Gautier
#51. Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
Patricia Highsmith
#52. Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities. They really kicked off this crisis. The state should set the rules and enforce them but not become involved as a market player.
George Soros
#55. He hymns the rotten queen with saffron hair
Who has saltier aphrodisiacs
Than virgins' tears. That bawdy queen of death,
Her wormy couriers are at his bones.
Still he hymns juice of her, hot nectarine.
Sylvia Plath
#56. Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism
which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
Hunter S. Thompson
#57. As a writer, you sit around a computer all day, and it's too easy to open another tab and keep Rotten Tomatoes there.
Evan Daugherty
#58. But the petty thought is like a fungus: it crawls and cringes and wants to be nowhere - until the whole body is rotten and withered with little fungi.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. 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
#60. Well, we learned a vital lesson here today, me mateys. You canna keelhaul a demon no matter how hard you try for it. The rotten crafty beastie bastard won't be having none of it.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.
Sonia Manzano
#62. My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff.
Hester Browne
#63. You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
Adolf Hitler
#64. Rotten boys with their rotten eyes with their ridiculous rotten eyelashes. They suck a girl in, a pair of Venus fly-traps. No, Venus eye-traps.
Eliza Crewe
#65. When you make a mistake, don't make a second one
keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.
George Horace Lorimer
#66. I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.
Natalie Dormer
#67. It's uncomfortable for me, but at least they're bouquets. They're not bricks or tomatoes yet, although it's gonna feel nice to get that big, rotten tomato right in the face, just get it out of the way.
John Fullbright
#68. When a wound is rotten, almost everybody
is suffering.
Petra Hermans
Petra Hermans
#69. You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
Ella Maillart
#70. While I think you were a rotten father and are still a horrid excuse for a person, I appreciate your ability to mix revenge and charity.
Kate M. Colby
#72. I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.
Brittany Murphy
#73. Salvation is not a matter of getting a reward that will make up for a rotten deal; it is a matter of entering by faith into the happiness - the hilarity beyond all liking and happening - that has been pounding on our door all along.
Robert Farrar Capon
#74. I call it rotten work, springing unexpected offspring on a fellow at the eleventh hour like this.
P.G. Wodehouse
