Inner Rot Quotes

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is bet a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

Man is rotten with perfection.

The rottenness comes from within.

All evil is good become cancerous.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn’t mean it’s not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. 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.

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.