Jonathan Swift Quotes

I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

No amount of advice change his attitude. He does not listed to good advice. Rather he gets angry.

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

To be against something or someone, it's a dangerous thing.

Even me mum can't tell me what to do.

It's hard if people don't want to fight me.

I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.

If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.

They [sic] ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby.

This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity.

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will definitely give you mine.

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."

I'm fundamentally, I think, an outsider. I do my best work and feel most braced with my back to the wall. It's an odd feeling though, writing aginst the current: difficult entirely to disregard the current. Yet of course I shall.

Let the enemies of life step down.