Perverse Quotes

151 Perverse quotes by 140 unique authors

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm… — Marianne Faithfull
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly. — Gustave Flaubert
I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them,… — Hedy Lamarr
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious. — Daniel Day-Lewis
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to… — Thomas Mann
There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And… — Barack Obama
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse… — Charles Trevelyan
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love… — Ellen G. White
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go… — Mark Zuckerberg
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the… — Anthony Burgess
Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing… — Jim Carroll
She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase away… — Megan Whalen Turner
â€¦I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy… — William Faulkner
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He… — Orson Scott Card
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,… — Anne Rice
she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway? — Janet Fitch
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse… — Italo Calvino
The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human conventionâ€”distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… — Sam Harris
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? — Jacqueline Carey

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