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Torture Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
- - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?…
- Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing...…
- There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian…
- Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.
- ...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in…
More Torture Quotes
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
- After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. — Emmanuelle Beart
- Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he… — Bob Beauprez
- War is organized murder and torture against our brothers. — Alfred Adler
- We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
- Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks
- Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for… — Luther Burbank
- What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. — Tori Amos
- I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more.… — Isaac Asimov
- Bad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it. — Jon Stewart