Quotes About Defiance

We can't just drop everything, sir! Mister Lipwig. Is there something in the word 'tyrant' you do not understand?

SOD YOU, THEN, Death said.

She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult.

She'd read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren't supposed to.

Mission motto, sir, said Carrot cheerfully. Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it. I imagine he did, said Lord Vetinari, observing the wizard coldly. And would you care to give us a colloquial translation, Mr Rincewind? Er... Rincewind hesitated, but there really was no escape. Er... roughly speaking, it means, 'We who are about to die don't want to', sir.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

He gave Gaspode a long, slow stare, which was like challenging a centipede to an arse-kicking contest.

When you break rules, break 'em good and hard

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

When you have dived off a cliff, your only hope is to press for the abolition of gravity.

If anyone locked me in a dungeon, there'd be screams.

Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Their eyes said that... they did know the meaning of the word 'fear'. It was something that happened to other people.

They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.

Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.

YOU WILL NOT TELL THE RIVERS NOT TO FLOW. YOU WILL NOT TELL THE SUN NOT TO SHINE. YOU WILL NOT TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT DO.

Tell the wee hag who we are, lads," said the helmet twiddler. There was the scrape of many small swords being drawn and thrust into the air. "Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!

He held the flag like a banner of defiance. 'You can take our lives but you'll never take our freedom!' he screamed. Carcer's men looked at one another, puzzled by what sounded like the most badly thought-out war cry in the history of the universe.

You're- you're not going to force me to go back are you? he said. Um? said the duke. He waved his hand irritably. No, no, he said. Not at all. Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Many an ancient lord's last words had been, You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.

To be fucking human, to not put too fine a point on it, and Daniel Boone can kiss my ass.

Laura would never be so easily intimidated. She was braver than he could ever be, brave enough to wave her ugly scars like scarlet flags.

It's the crudest insult he could fling at me, yet I manage to remain calm because nothing he says can hurt me now. I simply don't care. Instead I laugh. "You know, I've just realized something about you. You really are a bastard." "At least I'm not the one who wants to fuck the bush guide." "How do you know I haven't already?" He flings himself onto his side, turning his back to me.