Nasty Quotes - Page 12

• Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

  Daniel Handler

  Fear, Events, Useless

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• Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Regret, People, Bars

  J. R. Moehringer (2005). “The Tender Bar: A Memoir”

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• I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

  Stella Gibbons

  Saws, Cold Comfort Farm

  Cold Comfort Farm ch. 10 (1932)

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• An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Dirty, Naughty, Light

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• I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Dirty, Fighting

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• I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

  Steven Tyler

  Mean, Years, Long

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• I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

  Christopher Walken

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• I go outside, and I'm wearing a funky T-shirt and my hair is dirty, and people say, 'What's wrong with her? She needs to invest in a hairbrush.'

  Kristen Stewart

  Dirty, Naughty, Hair

  "Kristen Stewart talks critics & explains her laid-back style (I'm not that girl') in Allure: cover story" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

  Ben Stein

  Motivational, Stars, Dirty

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• I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

  Jane Siberry

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Running, Dirty, Naughty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dirty, Patriotic, Naughty

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 21, § 255, 2007.

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• People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, People, Mind

  "Debussy: Musician of France". Book by Victor Illyitch Seroff, 1957.

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• I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Said, Brave New World Technology, Brave New World Character

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Social, Justification

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.902, First Avenue Editions

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• Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.

  Moliere

  Men, Creatures, I Can

  'Le Tartuffe' (1669) act 5, sc. 6

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• ..when I say that "he's a truly nasty man," I mean he has so thoroughly renounced everything good that he might have inside him that he's already like a corpse even though he's still alive. Because truly nasty people hate everyone, to be sure, but most of all themselves. Can't you tell when a person hates himself? He becomes a living cadaver, it numbs all his negative emotions but also all the good ones so he won't feel nauseated by who he is.

  Muriel Barbery

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Air, Broken

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.428, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony - the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.

  Craig Ferguson

  Nice, Home, Ego

  "Frequently Asked Questions / What happened to Craig Ferguson (Mr. Wick)?". "The Drew Carey Show", www.imdb.com. 1995 - 2004.

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• We all have regrets, Urian. Nothing that lives is immune from that nasty emotion. (Acheron) So what? You want me to go kiss and make up? (Urian) Hardly. But I want you to set aside your own hurt and anger to see clearly for a minute. This isn’t about you and your father anymore than it’s about me and Nick hating each other over something we can’t change. This is about saving the lives of a million innocent people. People like Phoebe who don’t deserve to be hunted and killed. If I can stand at the side of my enemies for the greater good, so can you. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Regret, Father

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• You can’t. He has it shielded. Besides, he’s a god and can be a nasty one if you upset him. You try popping into any place where his beloved wife is and you’ll get fried faster than chicken at KFC. He doesn’t have a sense of humor when it comes to her. So wipe the frown off your face before you hurt her feelings and get gutted for it. (Phobos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Beloved Wife, Kfc

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.152, Macmillan

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• That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.

  Stella Gibbons

  Thinking, Would Be, Boring

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Car, Cheerful, Expensive

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• Do you think it makes people nasty to be loved? You know it doesn’t! Then why should it make them nice to be loathed? While you’re being persecuted, you hate what’s happening to you, you hate the people who are making it happen; you’re in a world of hate. Why, you wouldn’t recognize love if you met it! You’d suspect love! You’d think there was something behind it—some motive—some trick.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Hate, Nice, Love You

  Christopher Isherwood (2012). “A Single Man”, p.54, Random House

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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

  Booth Tarkington

  Ninety Nine, People, Gossip

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com

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