Nasty Quotes - Page 14

• If you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's alright too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mean, Fighting, Like You

  Shel Silverstein, “Don't Change On My Account”

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• I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Practicals, Fellows

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

  John Green

  People, Towns, Should

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.46, A&C Black

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• Die human, DIE!! Die nasty polluting person!!!!' yelled Grover. I turned him so he faced me. He kept on clicking his plastic gun towards me as if I was part of the game.

  Rick Riordan

  Gun, Games, Plastic

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• The widow’s eyebrows raised. “Ye’ve got all these nasty pooches to run around with and ye still might die?” “I’m going to go fight with a god, some demons, and a coven of witches who all want to kill me,” I said, “so it’s a distinct possibility.” “Are y’goin’ t’kill ’em back?” “I’d certainly like to.” “Attaboy,” the widow chuckled. “Off y’go, then. Kill every last one o’ the bastards and call me in the mornin’.

  Kevin Hearne

  Running, Fighting, Eyebrows

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.221, Del Rey

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• And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wind, Let It Go, Kites

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “The Rainbow”, p.356, OUP Oxford

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• Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.

  Jim Butcher

  Snacks, Evil, Chocolate

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.49, Penguin

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• Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

  J. K. Rowling

  Flower, People, Might

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• You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It’s wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Thinking, Dragons

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.247, Macmillan

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• You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more." I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Angel, Vampire, Wicked

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• Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

  Glenn Beck

  Morning, America, Four

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• My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible.

  Julian Fellowes

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Ugly, Want, Poor

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• She took a bad tumble. Those are some nasty bruises she's carrying," the maid said with a sad shake of the head. "Aye," Cullen agreed, his eyes traveling over lovely, milky white skin, interrupted by several black bruises. "She looks like a cow." Mildrede turned a horrified gaze on him at the comment, but he was more concerned by the choked sound that came from his bride. He really hadn't meant it as an insult, but it seemed the women were taking it so. "I just meant the coloring," Cullen muttered

  Lynsay Sands

  Eye, White, Lovely

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• What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

  Henry Miller

  Acceptance, Evil, Joy

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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• I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Travel, Dirty, Naughty

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• Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.

  Mary Ruwart

  Mother, Brother, Children

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• Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

  Deborah Grey

  Nervous

  Deborah Grey (2004). “Never retreat, never explain, never apologize: my life, my politics”

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• With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

  Alan Moore

  Stupid, Chaos, Vendetta

  "Fictional character: Finch". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

  Peter Fonda

  Children, Father, Kids

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• According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

  Jim Fowler

  Dirty, Naughty, Guy

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• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Civilization, Taste, Accepting

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

  Maxim Gorky

  Mean, Abuse, Black

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• I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Nice, Thinking

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

  Raymond Chandler

  Dirty, Dollars, Sides

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.352, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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