Quotes About Defiance

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

Thou calledst me a dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!

Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)

Lay on, McDuff, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. . . . O, I am fortune's fool! . . . Then I defy you, stars.

Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that Thou hast done to me. Therefore turn and draw.

I'll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.

I am one, my liege, Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless what I do to spite the world.

Then I defy you, stars!

Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear, Thou lily-livered boy.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.

I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you!        Exit

Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless

Stand, stand!...Nothing routs us but The villainy of our fears.

All I can say is, 'Damn the exam!

outrageously at his temples (by then his need to do something had become like a panic, a fierce drive up ward and outward from his self that had begun to cut like flame through the boozy dreamland, the nit-picking, the inertia, the navel-gazing), said loudly and impatiently: "What do you mean there is not a hope in the world?

Out there beyond this brief charmed circle, all around them, invading even our own minds, was something that disbelieved and destroyed and defeated. She knew it and recognized its power and yet she would never cease to deny it. In this moment of large weakness she suddenly knew large strength, a core buried deep within her that would refuse to be daunted by the outrageous blows or the niggling trifles human life was heir to.

I was born to be a spinster, and, by God, I'm going to spin.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished.

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put!