The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.” — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness. — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
“The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy.… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Jem: I know what you're thinking. Tessa:I don't think you do. You're think, If they call this damp nastiness summer, what must… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image