nasty quotes

Life nowadays is dominated and complicated by the remorseless Zip. Blouses zip up, skirts zip down, ski-ing suits zip everywhere† Why? Is there anything more deadly than a Zip that turns nasty on you?

- Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa ne  e Miller Christie
  Come, Tell Me HowYou Live, ch.1.

   People don't very much like things that are beautifultheyare so far from their nasty little minds.

- Regis Debray
  Letter.

Something nasty in the woodshed.

- Stella Dorothea Gibbons
   Aunt  Ada Doom. Cold Comfort Farm, ch.10.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are.You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

- Anthony Dymoke Powell
  Hearing Secret Harmonies, ch.7.

'Do you know what a pessimist is?' 'A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.'

- George Bernard Shaw
  An Unsocial Socialist, ch.5.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

-Jonathan Swift
  Thoughts onVarious Subjects (enlarged edn).