Edmund Burke Quotes

People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.

I wanna bite the hand that feeds me. I wanna bite that hand so badly. I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.

Everyone hates their liberators in the end.

As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

We know what we are supposed to do and we don't want to do it, so we do the exact opposite anyway. And, it never goes well for us when we do that.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.

I am proud to be a traitor to America.

I am committing high treason with all my might and means...

I was always biting the hand that fed me. It was compulsive. Kennedy was very good to me, and I attacked him as soon as he was elected. I attacked him before he was elected.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

I love to remember my enemies and I love to get my enemies. I had some enemies. I had people that really I helped a lot. And when I needed the help, in some cases, they were not there for me.

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

When it comes to treachery, he is implacable.

I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!

I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.

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.

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.

"We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."