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Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

William Shakespeare

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.

Benjamin Franklin

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt

Winston Churchill pointed out another attribute of good rhetoric: it is sincere. You must yourself really be against the Germans buzz-bombing London before you can persuade the English people it is a rotten notion.

Kerry Thornley

We played rotten. We played like we were finishing a marathon. I think (Clear Creek) could have set down on defense and we still wouldn't have scored.

Chuck White

He's had absolutely rotten luck in the last couple of weeks.

Nick Holmes

They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

I think this prosecutor got stuck with a rotten mackerel. He got stuck with a stinking, rotten mackerel he didn't buy.

J. Tony Serra

One bad apple doesn't necessarily mean the tree is rotten. We have plenty of examples where parents have had difficulties with one child and their other children are doing very well.

Rob Geen

If somebody like me, an absolute down-the-line centrist on this issue--my position on Israel/Palestine is identical to that of the Blair government--has so much difficulty publishing, it's a sign of how extremely limited and ethically rotten the media debate is in this country.

Anatol Lieven

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 looking appearance.

Sid Vicious

I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.

Gary Burghoff

We have about 47,000 priests in this country and most of them are damn good men, but some of them are rotten.

William Donahue

I think that John is also making that point to the American voter who feels that he can't make a difference because it's all too rotten, that if one is inquisitive enough, then maybe that spark can be ignited.

Danny Huston

I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.

Derek Jarman

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

Peter Cook

It didn't appear to be rotten. We don't know why it failed.

Paul Wirth

No, ... and whoever said that I will say they are rotten, foul liars to the core.

Robert Blake

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

Delmore Schwartz

The whole system is pretty rotten from start to finish and they really need to tighten up. There's very loose access control over who can get credit reports.

Avivah Litan

That's when they get the wood when it is just about to go rotten, and it makes that nice gray color.

Lynn Forres

He feels really rotten about what happened to that teacher and those kids.

Peter Navarro

This was one of the rotten things that happened.

Ron Kittle

A partisan Democrat who has done some really rotten political prosecuting.

Michael Barone

They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.

Frida Kahlo

The characters are not hesitant to use wonderful words like 'pathetic' and 'bracken' ? reeds along the river. He uses those words, knowing kids will ask 'What does that mean?' ... Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

John Lithgow

I think there are plenty of people who've reached the height of my brother. But he spoiled me rotten. He taught me to drive. He even carried me on some of his dates.

Jane Dasher