Gustave Flaubert Quotes

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.

Some people have a mandate that you can't change.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

I'm un-smiteable. That's something I realized very young.

I don't find myself to be the kind of person who is easily swayed.

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

Indestructible does not mean utterly invincible.

Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.

I believed I was invincible.

I got a granite chin.

Yeah, I just don't break. I don't. And there's only one person I know who's a better non-breaker than me, and that's Will Forte from 'SNL.' You can not make that guy break. I'll break eventually - Will Forte will never break.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.

Consistency frequently launches its devotees into obstinacy.

There is no use arguing. It is only a matter of time before I get my way.

I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

A lot of people say, 'It takes a lot to beat him,' or whatever. I'm trying to show you in the most literal terms, my body is indestructible, whether its glass or fire or barbed wire.

No human being, or party can defeat me.

I refuse to take no for an answer on anything.

Yes, I can be rigid and adamant about a point of view.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

Stupidity is an immovable object: you can't try to attack it wiithout being broken by it.