PERVERSITY

Related Subjects: Contradiction, Knavery, Obstinacy, Wickedness

1. Men take more pains to lose themselves than would be requisite to keep them in the right road.—K. H. DIGBY, The Broad Stone of Honour
   

2. All things can corrupt perverted minds.—OVID, Tristia
   

3. 'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
   

4. Men of perverse opinion do not know
   The excellence of what is in their hands,
   Till some one dash it from them.—SOPHOCLES, Ajax