Rats Deserting A Sinking Ship Quotes

Rats desert a sinking ship. They don't clamber on board.

I understand only too well why Russians with means have all made tracks abroad… If the ship is about to sink, the rats are the first to desert it.

understand only too well why Russians with means have all made tracks abroad, and why with every passing year more and more of them dash off abroad. It’s simply instinct. If the ship is about to sink, the rats are the first to desert it.

on 31 May 1904 Churchill ‘crossed the floor’: he entered the Chamber, walked towards the Speaker’s Chair, bowed, and then turned right instead of left to sit on the Opposition benches, from which he would savagely attack the party he had just deserted. For the Tories he was now ‘the Blenheim rat’, and it did look as though he was leaving a sinking ship.

The cars moved like ants across the shadowed water, or rats deserting a sinking ship.

We call people rats, who desert a sinking ship; but in some cases the rat has the wisdom of the situation.