Perversity Quotes
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Perversity Quotes & Sayings
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Remember the Finagle Laws. The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. The universe is hostile." "But
— Larry Niven
Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum
— Larry Niven
In his perversity, or his genius, or both,
— Clive Barker
Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.
— Mason Cooley
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
— Ellen Glasgow
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of this world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Woman, thy name is perversity!
— Margaret Way
I know you. Perversity is your aphrodisiac.
— Wodke Hawkinson
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance — Robert A. Heinlein
Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is that which must be personal and may be perverse.
— G.K. Chesterton
...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.
— Aleister Crowley
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
— John Updike
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
— William James
The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
— Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
The perversity of woman!' thought Julien. 'What pleasure, what instinct leads them to betray us?
— Anonymous
Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
— Barbara W. Tuchman
But it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
— Susan Sontag
Why do people value most the things they haven't got?
— Marty Rubin
