Nastier Quotes

#1. That which is supernatural and nasty knows supernatural and nastier when it sees it.

Jonathan L. Howard

#2. She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#3. If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

Jeannette Rankin

#4. People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.

John Mortimer

#5. After my baccalaureate, I signed up for acting lessons; there followed some inglorious years, during which I grew nastier and nastier and, as a consequence, more and more caustic; thanks to this, success finally arrived - on a scale that surprised me.

Michel Houellebecq

#6. A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. When the 'Guardian' is commissioning writers to write obituary pieces about you and your career ... it doesn't get much nastier than that. And you've just got to go, 'It doesn't actually matter.'

James Corden

#8. When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.

Octavia E. Butler

#9. First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.

Margaret Truman Daniel

#10. Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

C.S. Lewis

#11. We used these rifles in field exercises to simulate a lot of deadlier and nastier aimed weapons, too.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. History proves ... that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse.

Ben Bernanke

#13. Things are different here, sir," said Carrot. "It wasn't until ten years ago they replaced trial by ordeal here with trial by lawyer, and that was only because they found that lawyers were nastier.

Terry Pratchett

#14. I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man ... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]

Ernest Hemingway,

#15. The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I've found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.

Jarvis Cocker

#16. In a cottage deep in the forest lived the wicked old witch ... it was a cottage out of the nastier kind of fairy tale

Terry Pratchett

#17. The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#18. I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

Ernest Hemingway,

#19. In 'Serena,' stuff happens, then nastier stuff, without ever engaging the viewer's rooting interest or sick fear. Sometimes it's a question of sloppiness on the set or in the editing room.

Richard Corliss

#20. I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

Paddy Ashdown

#21. Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.

Hugh Hewitt

#22. It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.

C. D. Broad

#23. People in D.C. are so psyched when anyone dramatizes them in an exciting way. They're a lot more open to looking at the nastier side of themselves than the media is.

Beau Willimon

#24. Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

Nora Roberts

#25. The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

Robert Buettner

#26. But it's not so much having to repair the damage, it's more the attitude behind the vandalism, Harry. Muggle-baiting might strike some wizards as funny, but it's an expression of something much deeper and nastier ...

J.K. Rowling

#27. You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

Evelyn Waugh

#28. Hereos. Idols. They're never who you think they are. Shorter. Nastier. Smellier. And when you finally meet them, there's something that makes you want to choke the shit out of them.

Paul Beatty

#29. One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Connie Willis

#30. The nastier the dream, the angrier it is getting when it is in prison,' the BFG said.

Roald Dahl