Fish and chips Quote by Robert Rankin

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one…

— Laurence Sterne

I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me…

— Michael McIntyre

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

— Jake Tapper

There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who…

— Ed Koch

The only thing particularly new about the "new atheism" is its nastiness.

— Robert Barron

“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.”

— Stephen L. Carter

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage…

— Michael Kinsley

You need to possess more than a little nastiness to play basketball at the highest level.

— Jerry West

Some medical beast had revived tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the…

— Charles Dickens

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather…

— Antonin Artaud

I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.

— Andy Kindler

On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise…

— George Saunders

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

— George Berkeley

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and…

— Robert Hughes

“The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people…

— James Taranto