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Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.

Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mean, Rotten, Lasts

"The Master and Margarita". Book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Book One in 'Hapless Visitors', P/V, 1967.

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

Michael Caine

Dirty, Naughty, Rotten

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

John Lydon

Dying, Rotten, Glorious

John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman (2014). “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs”, p.261, Picador

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

James Russell Lowell

Society, Rotten, Ripe

James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.48

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

George Bernard Shaw

Practice, Civilization, Rotten

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Friendship, Together, Rotten

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.119, Atlântico Press

When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.

Dorothy Day

People, Rotten, Communist

Dorothy Day (2012). “All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day”, p.203, Image

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Dick Francis

Rotten, Politics, Emotion

Dick Francis (2001). “In the Frame”, p.107, Penguin UK

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

Liars, Lying, Rotten

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

Betty Smith

Rotten, Born, Dies

Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.40, Harper Collins

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

Alfred Stieglitz

Perfect, Rotten, Photographer

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

William Rees-Mogg

War, Rotten, Policy

Daily Mail, October 4, 2009.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

John Quincy Adams

Heart, Ambition, Rotten

John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”

Do not stand in the middle, go to the right or to the left.

John Lydon

Rotten, Middle, Left

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

John Lydon

People, Rotten, Blame

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Jenny Holzer

Rotten, Abstract, Painter

The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.

Henry Rollins

Firsts, Albums, Rotten

Henry Rollins (1996). “Do I Come Here Often”, 2.13.61 Publications

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Donald O'Connor

Rotten, Wonderful, Whole

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

Mermaid, Rotten, Denmark

Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”