“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 Copy Share Image
“The world was perverse, set up in such a way that bad decisions seemed obvious only in retrospect.” — Jennifer Mugrage Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors… — James Purefoy Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There's something perverse isn't there, if you're playing in front of 100,000 people and there's 2000 people down the front who don't… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had to be first in everything because in my perverse heart I felt myself the least of God's creatures. — Bill Wilson Copy Share Image
The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Being an actor somehow can be a perverse extension of that feeling we generally all have as children, that feeling of wanting… — Gina McKee Copy Share Image
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“You can bury your radical magazines and tear up your sexually perverse sketches and burn your sheets. But how do you erase… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married... with Children,' which is a really funny and… — Meghan Markle Copy Share Image
I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Climber did not interfere. He praised the education I had received, and approved greatly of our immersions, just after birth, by… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“We can go somewhere more private if you’d like… Buck” I whisper softly in his ear, pulling back almost as slowly as… — Dennis Sharpe Copy Share Image
I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“I had stumbled onto a significant fact of the human condition: the feedback to which life exposes us is perverse. Because we… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which,… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
