“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.” — Edmund Burke VerifiedSpeech on the Independence of Parliament (1780) · evidenceDetails & citeObstinacy Copy Share Share cardCard Report
“He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.” — Herman Melville VerifiedLetter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, including bits of a review of his work that he had written (c. 16 April 1851); in Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife, vol. I (1884), ch. VIII, p. 388 · evidenceDetails & citeObstinacy Copy Share Share cardCard Report
“Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.” — W. Somerset Maugham VerifiedOf Human Bondage (1915) · evidenceDetails & citeObstinacy Copy Share Share cardCard Report
“The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe VerifiedLittle Foxes (1865) · evidenceDetails & citeObstinacy Copy Share Share cardCard Report
“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.” — Sir Thomas Browne Obstinacy Copy Share Share cardCard Report
“Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?” — English Proverb Obstinacy Copy Share Share cardCard Report
“Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it.” — George Eliot Obstinacy Copy Share Share cardCard Report