Quotes by Perversity Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. Dave Hickey perversity sheer silence The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. Ellen Glasgow perversity enjoy death The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum. Larry Niven perversity maximum universe Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- Robert A. Heinlein being-generous perversity generous