“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
I could be mistaken, but I believe the majority of artists are perverts, and that inspiration springs from the seat of perversity;… — James Jean 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
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
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
“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
“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
“It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.” — Éliphas Lévi 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
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge. — Moshe Chaim Luzzatto 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
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
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
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
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
“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
I sort of feel sorry for gays being the last ones at the sexual revolution window. We've had liberalizing rules on divorce.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.” — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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