Perverseness Quotes
11 quotes by 9 authors
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the…
— Alexander McQueen
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Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with…
— Zoroaster
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From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of…
— Confucius
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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
— Thomas Mann
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to…
— Jane Austen
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Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness.…
— Marguerite Duras
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I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush…
— Anais Nin
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his…
— Thomas Mann
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We are living in a sex mad world. A world in which is polluted with pornography and profanity, a world of corruption and perverseness, a…
— Sessah-Odai Sadick
Who Wrote These Perverseness Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 11 Perverseness Quotes as follows: