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Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
RASCALITY, n. Stupidity militant. The activity of a clouded intellect.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability
To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind.
None can be called deformed but the unkind.
The laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.
The worst deformities, the foulest stains, disfiguring and blackening all the rest, are the very parts of Fijian nature which, while the most strongly characteristic, are such that may only be hurriedly mentioned, dimly hinted at, or passed by altogether in silence.
A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
Thou man of scruffy looks, thou who heard'st nerfs, Thou fool-born wimpled roughhewn waste waste of flesh!
A lifetime of cannibal hatred
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...
Caprice and irresponsibility ... .
Those two words sum you up; your whole nature's contained in those
two words.
Genius - the pursuit of madness.
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.
A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful.
incurable lover of the grotesque
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That
Ugliness, n.: A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
Strygalldwir is my name. Conjure with it and I will eat your heart and liver."
"Conjure with it? I can't even pronounce it, and my cirrhosis would give you indigestion.
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
Of a terrible, the incomprehensible way one's most banal, incidental, even comical choices archive the most disproportionate result.
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Unlike a sword, scorn has only the bite you give it.
caughtoutedness.
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
Yeah, I'm bringing back the word "slattern." Deal
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.
That swirling devil's clot, that black maelstrom of cylindrical majesty. It is a swirling gray spider egg unspooling, filled with rotten teeth. A biblical monster, God's vengeance. Whirring
Madness? THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
You're dishonoured, somehow. You've sinned. Sinned against the aspidistra."
"You talk a great deal about aspidistras," said Ravelston.
"They're a dashed important subject," said Gordon.
Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.
The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.
Faces and faces, served out like soup-plates by scullions; coarse, greedy, casual; looking in at shopwindows with pendent parcels; ogling, brushing, destroying everything, leaving even our love impure, touched now by their dirty fingers.
Madness, and then illumination.
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
what exactly is madness?
An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
An undying hatred, and a wound never to be healed.
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
Support cripples ability, pity smothers courage,
But criticism glistens rusted brilliancy.
Sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving ...
Madness is a bowl of poison cherries, chew them and die, but you die screaming in agony.
Secrets and Malice
I have sought you out to cure me.'
'To cure you of what?'
'Of this cursed affliction.'
'I cannot cure stupidity.'
Scapegrace frowned.
Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping out the rhythm on a carpeted floor.
A ghost which calls itself rationality but whose appearance is that of incoherence and meaninglessness, which causes the most normal of everyday acts to seem slightly mad because of their irrelevance to anything else.
this word needs to be reworded ==========
Let others take up my madness
And all that went with it.
Without madness what is man
But a healthy beast, A postponed corpse that breeds?
The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Done to death by slanderous tongue
Madness is witlessness's.
A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.
I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,
Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.
a madman's line of fire.
Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.
Splendiferous. That's your word. It's yellow with six legs and it's crawling up your arm.
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.
When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.
Intellectual disgrace
Stares from every human face,
And the seas of pity lie
Locked and frozen in each eye.
sacralized, violence made sacred in the very act of being expelled; or still, human violence transformed from bad and destructive
All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.
Tendentious point of view;
For madness must be punished in a world in which mere sanity is prized. The revenge of the ordinary upon the gifted.
As deformed as a grotesque potato,
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.
Oh foul magnificence, sublime disgrace.
Their faces were scarified in hideous whorls and dots. As for clothing, they dressed in vegetable matter. Another
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
That is honor's scorn
Which challenges itself as honor's born
And is not like the sire. Honors thrive
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers.
Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.
Bloody flaming ashes
Here is a couple more things I can't spell without you, disgust and distrust.
Among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all
Brokenness a result of bitterness.
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
Fond of those hives where folly reigns,
And cards and scandal are the chains,
Where the pert virgin slights a name,
And scorns to redden into shame.
I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.
A little scorn is alluring.
Schizophrenic, alternating as it served her purposes between
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
The insane and irrational springs of wickedness in most men ...
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
The greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.
Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.
If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.