Quotes About Contrariness

The best of us have a spice of perversity in us, especially when we are young and in love.

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

You're so rebellious as it is." "I am not!" Franny said with her customary defiance

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

My contrariness kept Char laughing, and his goodness kept me in love.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Her pain came from inside herself, from her resentment of the contrariness and frustration of life, while his came most often from outside himself, growing inevitably from his compassion. It was a simplification of the difference between them to say that to the selfish comfort comes from the external things, while to the selfless consolation comes interiorly, but that was the way Daphne put it to herself.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

And I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of Good then I'm glad I belong to the other shop.

You're against everything that's been done since the last war," said the very up-to-date lady. "You've got the wrong date: I'm against everything that's been done since Adam.

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.

I said, Don't do nothing of the kind; it's one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

He had always been like that, our son—quite capable of doing the opposite of what was right, simply because he didn't want to be seen to be complying in some way. I don't know where it came from, this urge to subvert. Perhaps it was what made him such a brilliant negotiator. He

I've always despised the hippies.

The ships all go the wrong way.

Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.

I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.

There is at least as much contrariness in your character as in mine. Why not come and be contrary with me?

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!