Contrariness Quotes

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

I can be as contrary as I choose.

I had always broken the rules.

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

When people expect me to go right, I'll go left. I'm unpredictable.

I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.

I wasn't that kid where if you told me 'No,' I was just going to do it anyway.

What I was really into as a kid, anything that drove my mother crazy or made her nervous, and not much has changed.

Always zig when people expect you to zag. Confound them!

It's true I don't play by the rules all the time.

I wasn't a rebel.

I wanted to be a rebel so badly.

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!

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

You tell me what to do and I'll do the opposite.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

I'm tired of playing the brat.

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Even when they are right the French can be infuriatingly perverse or incomprehensible.

I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

I do have a slightly rebellious streak in me, I'm afraid.

I was a bit of a rebel when I was young.