Quotes About Nastiness

There's a nastiness to conversations about U.S. education reform, which are characterized by the kind of stark taking-of-sides that's usually reserved for debates over guns or abortion rights.

The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all.

Dorothy asked timidly: Did his wife say anything? She sent her love to you. Nora said: Stop being nasty.

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.

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.

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.

The more I see of witchcraft, the more it seems just an easy way to be nasty.

Politics gets nastier and more vicious with each passing year. It's not a parade of ideals or ethics any more. It's about celebrity, false promises and image.

Good evening? "Good evening," he says!' His face contorted into a puckered grin of nastiness. 'Let me tell you something, Pip Bin, your good evenings will not last if I have my way. One day soon I shall greet you by saying, "Bad evening," and you will have no choice but to sadly shake your head and say, "Yes, yes, it is a bad evening, they all are now." Ha, ha, ha!

My brothers were funny, and there was a lot of shtick and comedy and nastiness and violence and fighting and sports.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

If there is one thing that has always plunged me into sadness or compassion, I mean into a state that excludes all manner of nastiness or irony, it is the existence of Teilhard de Chardin - not only his existence, but the fact that he has, or could have had, readers, however small the number. In the presence of a reader of Teilhard de Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.