These nasty quotes will inspire you. Nasty is very unpleasant to see, smell, taste, etc., or (of a person or animal) behaving in an unpleasant or spiteful way.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging nasty quotes, nasty sayings, and nasty proverbs.
Best Nasty Quotes
- “Let’s not be narrow, nasty, and negative.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.” ~ LL Cool J
- “All I’m trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.” ~ Tupac Shakur
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“If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.” ~ Jeannette Rankin
- “Don’t speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.” ~ Nas
- “A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.” ~ Carlos Santana
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“Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.” ~ Dorothy Parker
- “Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they’re dead is the nasty things I’ve said about them.” ~ Camille Paglia
- “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.” ~ Michael Kinsley
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“I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.” ~ Mick Jagger
- “In Lubbock, we grew up with two main things: God loves you and he’s gonna send you to hell, and that sex is bad and dirty and nasty and awful and you should save it for the one you love.” ~ Butch Hancock
- “Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.” ~ Margaret Smith
- “Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation… none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich
- “I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire, but are lousy in politics.” ~ Newt Gingrich
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“Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life – by how one lives and what he did.” ~ Nas
- “You know a lot of times you’ll find girls in a club are jaded to the other girls in the club. There’s a nasty vibe between the chicks in the club. It’s like a pretty girl can’t look at another pretty girl and say Wow she’s pretty.” ~ Willa Ford
- “The band broke up because I couldn’t bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.” ~ Sid Vicious
- “It’s very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.” ~ Jo Brand
- “I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.” ~ John Grisham
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“People talk about escapism as though it’s something nasty but escapism is wonderful!” ~ Margaret Forster
- “At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage, and shame.” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich
- “Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I’ve stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.” ~ Russell Crowe
- “Estate agents. You can’t live with them, you can’t live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared around about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, mustaches, and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you’re put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There’s only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained, and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you’d be mad not to loathe them.” ~ Stephen Fry
- “The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn’t have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?” ~ Maggie Smith
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“What I hate is nasty, ugly people.” ~ Karl Lagerfeld
- “Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.” ~ Shintaro Ishihara
- “Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.” ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- “I hunt feral hogs. I try not to shoot creatures. That doesn’t do anything for me. But big, nasty, smelly, bristly things with tusks that destroy everything that they touch. Yeah, I’ll shoot them.” ~ David Feherty
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“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It’s going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.” ~ J. G. Ballard
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“An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.” ~ Queen Victoria
- “People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.” ~ Janeane Garofalo , Nasty quotes person
- “No matter what your race, creed or sexual preference, there is a word that people use to describe you that is very nasty. It’s what we all have in common. That, and masturbation.” ~ Jon Stewart
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“No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can’t let people’s nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?” ~ Elizabeth Berkley
- “A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.” ~ Conor Cruise O’Brien
- “One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.” ~ Michael O’Leary
- “If you don’t have a nasty obituary you probably didn’t matter.” ~ Freeman Dyson
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“But persistent name-calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact” ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
- “I’ve seen a lot of women give up after they’ve had three or four bad gigs in a row. It’s very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.” ~ Jo Brand
- “When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he’s ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.” ~ Richard K. Morgan
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“No, I’m happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.” ~ McLean Stevenson
- “There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.” ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
- “You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.” ~ Kim Harrison
- “Reality has been around since long before you showed up. Don’t go calling it nasty names like ‘bizarre’ or ‘incredible’. The universe was propagating complex amplitudes through configuration space for ten billion years before life ever emerged on Earth. Quantum physics is not ‘weird’. You are weird.” ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
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“Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.” ~ Robert M. Gates
- “Well, I know that I’ll never forget that, but also I won’t forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn’t a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.” ~ Gil Hodges
- “Life is nasty, brutish, and short” ~ Thomas Hobbes
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“I don’t like green Christmases. They’re not green—they’re just nasty faded browns and grays.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “It would be flattering to call it a modern Dirty Harry, but I think this film deals more with the loss of his wife than the traditional revenge vigilante films.” ~ Vin Diesel
- “The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I’m going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.” ~ Larry Craig
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“I was married for 30 years. Isn’t that enough? I’ve had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.” ~ Martha Stewart
- “I deal with negative, nasty comments on a regular basis. It’s difficult to digest because I’ve always been sensitive and it’s a slap in the face to have someone respond cruelly when you’re trying to lift people up. It’s been a huge lesson for me.” ~ Kathryn Budig
- “Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.” ~ George Orwell
- “We are lost, lost,’ said Gollum. ‘No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “Some actresses are just insane. I’ve never worked with a nasty actress – they’re all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
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“You’re not going to find a man whose socks don’t get dirty or who doesn’t snore.” ~ Helen Reddy
- “Discipline is not a nasty word.” ~ Pat Riley
- “After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small-town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that’s what he did to get rid of people.” ~ Guy Ritchie
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“We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was on stage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley’s very funny, very witty guy, very quick.” ~ Joe Rogan
- “Don’t get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead, learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.” ~ Angela Merkel
