Insidious Quotes

“Charm. The most insidious weapon in all the human armoury.”

— Josephine Tey

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

— Pierce Brosnan

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

— Alan Moore

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

— Helen Keller

A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight!

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“Their is no more insidious poison than hubris.”

— C.A.A. Savastano

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the…

— Brian Eno

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of…

— Douglas MacArthur

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

— Denis Diderot

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment, freeze reflexes, breed mistakes. Worse, it's contagious.

— Anonymous

We carry an insidious prosperity gospel around in our dark, little, entitled hearts.

— Matt Chandler

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and…

— Edward Bates

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later,…

— Margaret Atwood

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

— Stuart Bowen

I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week,…

— Dennis Miller

We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must…

— John Green

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life…

— Gaston Bachelard

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this…

— Steve King

The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing…

— David Folkenflik

The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone…

— Teju Cole

It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get…

— Jessica Hagedorn

Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn…

— E.W. Jackson

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to…

— Louis D. Brandeis

One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families…

— William Henry Chamberlin

People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of…

— Michael Newdow

American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are…

— Kalle Lasn

When someone is unrelentingly critical of you, always finds fault, can never be pleased, and blames you for everything that goes wrong,…

— Beverly Engel

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other,…

— Caroline Knapp

Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of…

— Ashley Judd

One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a…

— Karen MacNeil

“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds…

— Sandra Lee Dennis

“Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.”

— Robert Lacey

“Obsession is a clever and insidious drug.”

— Steve Cash

And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.

— Elie Wiesel

Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.

— Mark Akenside

confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder

— Cornel West

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

— Lebbeus Woods

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

— Neal Shusterman