King Rat may mean:
- Uromys rex, a species of rat
- King Rat (1962 novel), a novel by James Clavell set in World War II
- King Rat (film), released in 1965, based on the James Clavell novel
- King Rat (1998 novel), an urban fantasy novel by China Miéville
- "King Rat" (song), a 2 track vinyl promo by Modest Mouse
- King Rat is the head of the Grand Order of Water Rats, a music hall society of Great Britain
- King Rat, the nickname of the Ulster loyalist Billy Wright, and an autobiography he wrote detailing his activities
Famous quotes containing the words king and/or rat:
“This was the merriest old man that we had ever seen, and one of the best preserved. His style of conversation was coarse and plain enough to have suited Rabelais. He would have made a good Panurge. Or rather he was a sober Silenus, and we were the boys Chromis and Mnasilus, who listened to his story.... There was a strange mingling of past and present in his conversation, for he had lived under King George, and might have remembered when Napoleon and the moderns generally were born.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“But you think ... that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)