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The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
— John Milton
Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
— Carl Sagan
Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.
— Richard Chenevix Trench
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
— Warren Buffett
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.
— Michel Gondry
I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.
— Richard Marshall
Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse?
— Thomas E. Woods Jr.
You can bury your radical magazines and tear up your sexually perverse sketches and burn your sheets. But how do you erase who you are?
— Lauren Beukes
Life is unbearably perverse; that which we most seek to avoid always becomes unavoidable.
— William Lashner
A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
— William Hazlitt
Alas, the human mind is a perverse, uncontrollable organ,
— Sophie Hannah
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?
— Jacqueline Carey
Eureka didn't voice her perverse enjoyment at dressing as an object with a second life when it was dead.
— Lauren Kate
The past is our ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.
— Penelope Lively
I didn't really want to come back here and again have to feel like my lungs were drowning in this perverse nostalgia.
— John Green
All of our relationships are based on self-interest, discrimination and a perverse need for gain.
— Bryant McGill
The world's perverse, but it could be worse.
— Mona Van Duyn
I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.
— Stephen Farrell
Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.
— Judith McNaught
Anything that was perverse and silly would be Kids in the Hall.
— Kevin McDonald
No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.
— Lilian Jackson Braun
The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated
— Anne McCaffrey
My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.
— Phyllis Gotlieb
Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
— Camille Paglia
Nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.
— Jonathan Weiner
Forgiveness is hard, and most people tend to hold on to their hurts, to take some kind of perverse satisfaction in them.
— Debbie Macomber
Jews are a perverse people, accursed by God forever.
— Hilary Of Poitiers
I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.
— Tracy Letts
Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.
— George Orwell
Mary seemed to have taken a perverse pleasure in seeing how best she could alternate undercooking and overcooking.
— Agatha Christie
Woman, thy name is perversity!
— Margaret Way
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder.
— Karen Armstrong
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
— Charles James
His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.
— Irvine Welsh
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
— Nan Fairbrother
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.
— James Purefoy
To so perverse a sex all grace is vain.
— John Dryden
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
— Fernando Pessoa
How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched bythe often perverse wisdom of man! — Umberto Eco
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.
— Terry Gilliam
It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
— Terence McKenna
I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.
— Anais Nin
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.
— Sydney J. Harris
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
— Erik Larson
No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.
— Francesco Petrarca
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
— Robert Musil
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.
— Abbi Glines
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
— David Brooks
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
— Stanley Hauerwas
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.
— Cate Blanchett
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If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.
— Debra Ollivier
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
— Thomas Merton
Maybe I'm strange and perverse, but I've always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.
— Therese Doucet
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?
— John Waters
For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
— Samuel Richardson
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[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
— Sir Laurens Van Der Post
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
— Gustave Flaubert
The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.
— Jennifer Stone
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.
— John Kennedy Toole
By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.
— Adrian Goldsworthy
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.
— Raymond Sokolov
Males have been groomed since birth, according to the specifications of a sick and perverse society, to become instruments of war.
— Bryant McGill
I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.
— Peggy Orenstein
