"Rot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one to go?" "Don't ask me," the Englishman protested. "And above all, don't tell me. I don't want to know. Since I've been on this job, I've learned to believe in telepathy and mind reading and witchcraft and all manner of unholy rot. And I don't want you to come to a sudden end through somebody's establishing illicit ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... the critic who tells you the handicap's absolute rot, For this is chucked in, and that's hopeless, and somebody ought to be shot. How is it he can't make a fortune himself when he knows such ...
— Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses • A. B. Paterson
... Court is with you." The other comes from an Australian Court. Counsel was addressing Chief Justice Holroyd when a portion of the plaster of the Court ceiling fell, and he stopping his speech for the moment, incautiously advanced the suggestion, "Dry rot has probably been the cause of that, my lord."—"I am quite of your opinion, Mr. ——," ...
— Law and Laughter • George Alexander Morton
... you up with all that silly rot, Rube?" he asked. "If that's the reputation you judge me by I shall have a jolly hard task to ...
— Kiddie the Scout • Robert Leighton
... me rot in the poorhouse," assented Mr. Bingle composedly. "I am not deceiving myself in regard to Geoffrey and Angela and Lizzie—I mean Elizabeth. You won't mention what I have just confided to you, ...
— Mr. Bingle • George Barr McCutcheon
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