Perverse Quotes

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

— Wolf Kahn

“[Perverse] unreason has its own logical processes”

— Joseph Conrad

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

— John Waters

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

— Charles Darwin

“Woman, thy name is perversity!”

— Margaret Way

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

— Jennifer Stone

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

— Cate Blanchett

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

— John Milton

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

— Ada Leverson

I had to be first in everything because in my perverse heart I felt myself the least of God's creatures.

— Bill Wilson

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Anonymous

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

— Erik Larson

“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 don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I…

— Harlan Coben

I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it…

— Michel Gondry

Every day after school for 10 years, I was on the set of 'Married... with Children,' which is a really funny and…

— Meghan Markle

“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

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

— James Purefoy

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

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

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

“Oh great, you too. So now I wear this label 'Queer' emblazoned across my chest. Or I could always carve a scarlet…

— Rita Mae Brown

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our…

— Simon Schama

There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm…

— Annette Bening

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

— David Brooks

“All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.”

— Bryant McGill

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

— Jennifer Mugrage

“Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.”

— William Lashner

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

— Debra Ollivier

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Stephen King

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

— Sydney J. Harris

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

I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my…

— Antony Beevor

I don't know how exactly but I'm maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily…

— Rose McGowan

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is…

— Paulo Coelho

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

— Thucydides

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending…

— Mo Ibrahim

Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the…

— Mardy Grothe