Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana Angelic Aphorism Aphorisms Aphorist Aphorists Atheism Atheist Atheists Bad Base Believer Believers Bible Blameless Chaplain Chaplains Church Churches Churchman Churchmen Clergyman Clergymen Cleric Clerics Congregation Congregations Corrupt Criminal Crooked Curate Curates Debased Debauched Decent Degenerate Depraved Dishonest Dishonorable Disreputable Dissolute Ecclesiastic Ecclesiastics Ethical Evil Foul Funny Godless Good High Minded Hilarious Honest Honorable Humor Humorous Humour Image Imam Imams Immoral Impress Impression Impure Iniquitous Irreproachable Joke Jokes Law Abiding Lewd Licentious Loose Lowdown Man Of The Cloth Men Of The Cloth Minister Ministers Miscreant Moral Morally Wrong Nefarious Noble Nonbeliever Nonbelievers Obscene Padre Padres Pagan Parson Parsons Pastor Pastors Persona Perverse Perverted Preacher Preachers Priest Priests Principled Promiscuous Pure Quotations Quotes Rector Rectors Reprobate Reverend Reverends Righteous Saintly Satire Shady Shameless Sinful Sleazy Synagogue Synagogues Unchaste Unconscionable Unethical Unprincipled Unscrupulous Unvirtuous Upright Upstanding Vicar Vicars Vile Villainous Virtuous Wanton Wicked Wish Wrongful

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

~ Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann Absurd Beauty Perverse Solitude

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

~ Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens Brooding Diseased Mind Perverse Perverted Reverse Seclusion Solitary

Maybe perversion was not illness at all. Maybe every form of deviance was just a potential force of union and community, one that had not yet organized itself into political lobbies, self-help groups, bowling leagues...Once you grant legitimacy to one sexual proclivity, what's to stop the others from demanding their rights too?

~ Supervert

Supervert Perverse Sexuality

We can go somewhere more private if you’d like… Buck” I whisper softly in his ear, pulling back almost as slowly as the wicked grin spreads across my face. His perverse smile hides nothing. I have him now, hook, line and zipper.

~ Dennis Sharpe

Dennis Sharpe Perverse Sexy Turn Of Phrase Wicked