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Quotes About Defiance

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.
~ Anthony Burgess
So we got hold of him and cracked him with a few good horrorshow tolchocks, but he still went on singing.
~ Anthony Burgess
Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you enuch jelly, thou
~ Anthony Burgess
How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.
~ Anthony Burgess
The millicents (The police) now got down to making this long statement for me to sign, and I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of the Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.
~ Anthony Burgess
Like most people in rebellion, he was more than half in love with what he was rebelling against.
~ Anthony Powell
Why are you so stuck up?' she asked, truculently. 'I'm just made that way.' 'You ought to fight it.' 'I can't see why.
~ Anthony Powell
When he knows," continued Mary, who would not be put down, "that I love another man with all my heart. What will Lord Popplecourt say if I tell him that? If he says anything to me, I shall tell him. Lord Popplecourt! He cares for nothing but his coal-mines. Of course, if you bid me see him I will; but it can do no good. I despise him, and if he troubles me I shall hate him. As for marrying him, — I would sooner die this minute
~ Anthony Trollope
Had he yielded to the claim, the attack would have been as venomous, and very probably would have come from the same quarter
~ Anthony Trollope
I don't care twopence who have their way," said Lucinda, "I mean to have mine; — that's all.
~ Anthony Trollope
Shall a woman be flayed alive because it is unfeminine in her to fight for her own skin?
~ Anthony Trollope
Is a woman like a head of cattle, that she can be fastened in her crib by force? I will never live with him though all the judges of the land should decide that I must do so.
~ Anthony Trollope
There were 10,000 stout fellows, as Daniel Defoe had written earlier in the century in The Behaviour of Servants, who would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse'.
~ Antonia Fraser
She bites God in the wrist]
~ Antonin Artaud
La matière ne me mangera pas, moi.
~ Antonin Artaud
Paulus guessed immediately that he had been presented with a cup of hemlock. He exclaimed to General Pfeffer at his last generals' conference: 'I have no intention of shooting myself for this Bohemian corporal
~ Antony Beevor
Who's stupid now, Jimbo?!
~ April Henry
Instead of trying to reform other people's - or her own - perception of feminist, the FCP likes to position herself as something outside the normal bounds of womanhood.
~ Ariel Levy
Let's smell like women, armed to teeth with rage!
~ Aristophanes
Lea: I hate the world so much right now that I'm so scared of that day when the world starts hating me back for it. Greg: To hell with the world, Lea!! Fuck it if the world doesn't need you!! I need you!!
~ Arnold Arre
I won't go to their gas chambers! And my children won't go to their gas chambers. Bibi! Lonia! Richieu! Come here quickly!
~ Art Spiegelman
You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Get in my way again, boy, and you're going to learn that Velkan isn't the only one in this family who has fangs. Retta to Viktor
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't want to hurt you, Dar. Either get out of my way or I'm going through you. Xev
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon