Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.

I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

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

I'm stubborn. I'm hardheaded. I don't do what I don't want to do.

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

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

I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

Don't think this has taught me a lesson !

I always refused to give in if there was some argument with my father. Whether it was true or not, I refused to admit it and so often I would - well, tell lies, perhaps. I would either do that or change the story. Particularly if I felt that my father was being unjust, then I was very strongly motivated to not accept his ruling.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

Will you, or will you not, quit me? I now demanded in a sudden passion, advancing close to him. "I would prefer not to quit you", he replied, gently emphasizing the not.

Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him shifting his weight, considering if she might let him dig just a small hole.

So be it. I'll wear my iron and hold my tongue. A man who won't listen can't hear.

Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you. Similarly, you write true things or good things, and end by thinking things true or good simply because you write them

I won't give up till we surrender!

The proud will sooner lose than ask their way.

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

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.

I'm not Stubborn; I'm right!

I am deaf to the word 'no'.

Give up trying to make me give up