Best Perverseness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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 fragility of romance. It's like a Story of O. I am not big on women looking naive. There has to be a sinister aspect, whether it's melancholy of sadomasochist. I think everyone has a deep sexuality, and sometimes it's good to use a little of it-and sometimes a lot of it-like a masquerade.”

Thinking Littles Sometimes Stories Use Bigs Romance Clothes Aspect Sexuality Agendas Melancholy Naive Sinister Fragility Masquerade Perverseness

Author:Alexander McQueen

“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 gentleness.”

Hands Enemy Kindness Hair Gentle Elephants Gentleness Perverseness Petulance

Author:Zoroaster

“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 the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.”

Men May States Whole Influence Example Ambition Thrown One Man Disorder Courtesy Rebellious Courteous Perverseness

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

“No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of our neighbours all about us), and compare our case with theirs, we shall find that we have many consorts and associates in adversity, most as ill, many far worse bestead than ourselves; whence it must be a great fondness and perverseness to be displeased that we are not exempted from, but exposed to bear a share in the common troubles and burdens of mankind.”

Ifs Men Kind Common Cases Trouble Share Conditions Mankind Bears Degrees Adversity Ill Burden Compare Peculiar Exposed Associates Neighbour Surveys Brethren Fondness Perverseness

Author:Isaac Barrow

“Perverseness is your whole defence.”

Whole Defence Perverseness

Book:The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift

Source: The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift

“The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.”

Too Much Fate Mines Perverseness

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.”

“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.”

“A completely indifferent attitude toward clothes in women seems to me to be an admission of inferiority, of perverseness, or of alack of realization of her place in the world as a woman. Or--what is even more hopeless and pathetic--it's an admission that she has given up, that she is beaten, and refuses longer to stand up to the world.”

World Seems Given Attitude Fashion Clothes Refuse Appearance Realization Hopeless Indifferent Beaten Pathetic Given Up Inferiority Places In The World Admission Perverseness

Author:Hortense Odlum

“There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.”

Writing Wells Kind Art Important Ideas Art Is Betrayal Superiors Garbage Perverseness

Author:Matthew Specktor

“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”

Produce Solitude Absurd Originality Forbidden Astonishing Perverseness Death In Venice Beauty Poetry

Book:Death in Venice

Source: Death in Venice

“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 throw a hero in her way.”

Way Love Happens Young Hero Forty Wedding Sister Heroines Young Ladies Heroes And Heroines Perverseness

Book:Northanger abbey

Source: Northanger abbey

“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. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”

Knows Love Enough Moving Perverseness

Book:The Lover

Source: The Lover

“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 me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.”

Hurt Willing Personality Limits Worship Add Cruelty Crush Plus Ashes June Egoism Hesitation Hardness Destructiveness Perverseness

Author:Anais Nin

“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 - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“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 thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”

Source: Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book

“Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.”

Source: The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today

“Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.”

“Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.”

Memories Remembrance Never Ending Perverseness

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“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 of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.”

Men Giving Humans Soul Character My Soul Primaries Impulse Faculty Sentiments Primitive Human Heart Indivisible Black Cat Soul Life Perverseness

Book:The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius