The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.
Perversity depends on reversal and substitution.
The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.
Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects. . . and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.
Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.
Man's sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans the pages of the daily newspaper. This is to be attributed to sheer ignorance and perversity, or pitiable fate.
