Top 302 Perverse Quotes & Sayings

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away the darkness, perverse because she didn't know if she wanted the shadows to be empty or not.

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

Jews are a perverse people, accursed by God forever.

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

Invention in photography is so laborious as to be in most instances perverse.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

I'm one of those perverse people who likes being alone. I always took myself to be a community of one. That's what I am comfortable with.

Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by the often perverse wisdom of man!

Every society gets encumbered with what is trivial, with dead wood from the past, and with what is positively perverse.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.