“The perversity of woman!' thought Julien. 'What pleasure, what instinct leads them to betray us?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“I can only explain my behaviour then by the mechanism of that dream vacuum wherein revolves a deranged mind.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity. — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge. — Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Copy Share Image
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The human race was in need of salvation because of the perversity of sin. For when people who are ill are cured… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
“Perversion is just another form of art. It's like painting or drawing or sculpting. Except instead of paint, us perverts use sex… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. -… — Lars Iyer Copy Share Image
We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Therefore, not only are their passions satanic, but their lives are diabolic. So I say to you that these are even worse… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“We have a task before us which must be speedily performed. We know that it will be ruinous to make delay. The… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“In the course of my life I have had pre-pubescent ballerinas; emaciated duchesses, dolorous and forever tired, melomaniac and morphine-sodden; bankers' wives… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it. — William James Copy Share Image
Man's sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable… — Otto Gross Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
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