71 Vermin Quotes
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Famous Vermin Quotes
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
Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. — William Shakespeare
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat. — Charles Dickens
One worm may damage the whole cooking soup. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. — Wendell Berry
You dirty, double-crossing rat. — James Cagney
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
As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success. — Mason Cooley
Envy, the meanest of vices, creeps on the ground like a serpent. — Ovid
A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals. — Ingrid Newkirk
You're a parasite for sore eyes. — Gregory Ratoff
As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases. — Diogenes
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mice are fighting over the neighbor's yeast. — Moroccan Proverbs
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. — Herb Caen
Short Vermin Quotes
- The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Black tenants smell and attract vermin. — Donald Sterling
- Lawyers and rogues are vermin not easily rooted out of a rich soil. — Horace Walpole
- I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine. — Edwin Markham
- Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food. — Austin O'Malley
- Sookie: Is Eric around?" Pam: "He is enthralling the vermin. — Charlaine Harris
Rodents Quotes
Micky Mouse is the aspiration of every Argentine politician because he is a disgusting rodent whom everybody loves. — Javier Milei
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. — Umberto Eco
The ferret, the limousine of rodents. — Theo Von
I hate rodents. I mean, the House of Commons is completely infested. I will stand on a chair if I see one of the things. — Liz Truss
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr
A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. — Terry Pratchett
Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes — Julian Clary
Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice. — David Feherty
Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. — Preston Manning
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. — Umberto Eco
People Writing About Vermin
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Jonathan Swift |
446 | 2615 |
 William Shakespeare |
4052 | 36000 |
 Charles Dickens |
1001 | 11529 |
 Vietnamese Proverbs |
114 | 1 |
 Wendell Berry |
487 | 3716 |
 James Cagney |
18 | 560 |
More Vermin Quotes
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.
If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves. — Aldous Huxley
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or a laboratory subject, you aren't seeing the rabbit anymore. You are seeing only yourself and the schemes and appetites we bring to the world-seeing, come to think of it, like an animal instead of as a moral being with moral vision. — Matthew Scully
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
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
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts. — Olaf Stapledon
There's a hole in the world Like a great black pit And the vermin of the world Inhabit it ... And it goes by the name of London. — Stephen Sondheim
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
Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road. — Tibor Fischer
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
I live in a constituency that is quite rural, there are some very successful hunts there that are abiding by the law as it stands now but who are very often pointing out to me the consequences of the need to exterminate vermin, which foxes are, and the consequences of trying to shoot them and winging them and so on. — Andrea Leadsom
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. — Noam Chomsky
There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no Clapham hunt, but we can see foxes on their streets at night. If we want to control vermin we should work out how to deal with that problem. The idea that foxhunting controls the fox population is arrant nonsense. — Roger Gale
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons -- reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for. — Terry Eagleton
No attempt 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
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
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
Christ 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
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
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
Millions of human vermin swarm sweating along the night-arched cavernous roads. (Happily rapid chemical processes will disintegrate them all. — Richard Aldington
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
What birds were they? (...) He listened to the cries: like the squeak of mice be- hind the wainscot : a shrill twofold note. But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trilled as the flying beaks clove the air. Their cry was shrill and clear and fine and falling like threads of silken light unwound from whirring spools. — James Joyce
You men of the einsatzgruppen are called upon to fulfill a repulsive duty. But you are soldiers who have to carry out every order unconditionally. You have a responsibility before God and Hitler for everything that is happening. I myself hate this bloody business and I have been moved to the depths of my soul. But I am obeying the highest law by doing my duty. Man must defend himself against bedbugs and rats, against vermin. — Heinrich Himmler
The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut? — Luis de Camoes
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. — Frederick Rolfe
When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: 'Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!' And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become. — Martin Luther
He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that word filthy. I love the way you force it out of your mouth like it's some kind of vermin you want to get rid of." "You've had vermin in your mouth?" "You're mean in that way, you know. You don't let anyone get away with pathetic analogies. — Melina Marchetta
Humans aren’t a protected class. (Acheron) Really? (Jaden) Yeah. Savitar shares your ‘all humans are vermin’ mind set. (Savitar) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear. — Christopher Moore
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what a pig could spit and it goes by the name of London. At the top of the hole sit the privileged few Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo turning beauty to filth and greed... I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders, for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru but there's no place like London! — Stephen Sondheim
The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity. — Randy Alcorn
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