Perverse Quotes · Page 2

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

— Carl Sagan

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

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Darwin

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

— John Waters

“[Perverse] unreason has its own logical processes”

— Joseph Conrad

“He was so damn perverse, he preferred to dream it than to make it come true.”

— Janet Fitch

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

— Samuel Richardson

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.

— Linda Howard

“You can bury your radical magazines and tear up your sexually perverse sketches and burn your sheets. But how do you erase…

— Lauren Beukes

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

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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

— Cate Blanchett

Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting…

— Gina McKee

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

— Jennifer Stone

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

— Sophocles

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

— John Calvin

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

— Terence McKenna

“There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a…

— Lisa Kleypas

Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been…

— Wendy Davis

“How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of…

— Paulo Coelho

“The Climber did not interfere. He praised the education I had received, and approved greatly of our immersions, just after birth, by…

— William Beckford

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is…

— John Hodgman

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the…

— Iain Sinclair

You can't really win as a Booker judge. If you choose the obvious names, the unit-shifters, you're accused of being timid and…

— Tibor Fischer

Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a…

— Torbjørn Rødland

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Lily Tomlin

“You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.”

— Stephen King

“The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?”

— Jeremiah

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Pico Iyer

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors…

— James Purefoy

“Edgar Allan Poe called it “the imp of the perverse,” that willful, self-destructive voice within that impels us to do things or…

— Jack Cashill

“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.”

— Jennifer Mugrage

There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant…

— Jess Walter

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a…

— Orson Scott Card

All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I’m…

— Jared Leto

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

— Terry Gilliam

“To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition…

— Edward De Bono

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before…

— Thucydides

“If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.”

— Debra Ollivier