Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or rats:
“In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“When the cat’s away, the rats dance on the table.”
—Swedish proverb, trans. by Verne Moberg.