Rulebreaking Quotes

“Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“Try telling the truth for a whole week.
And just see how much trouble you get in.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

“Rulebreakers are like great artists, sometimes we don’t recognise what they give us until it’s too late.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

“The more powerful the person you meet, the more surprising it is to find out they’re just making it up, just like the rest of us.”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

“The trouble is that for too long, business has been run by the wrong sort of pirates”
― Sam Conniff Allende, Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win

“Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.”
― Richard Davenport-Hines, An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

“I do not make the rules [. . .] This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them”
― Ellen Kushner, The Privilege of the Sword

“As a parent, Lillian had always been lively and playful, prone to leaving clutter in her wake, sometimes talking too loudly in her enthusiasm, and always demonstrative in her affection. A let's-try-it-and-see-what-happens sort of mother. If Merritt had been forced to offer a criticism, it would have been that as a child, she'd sometimes been disappointed about all the rules her mother hadn't known and couldn't have cared less about.
When Merritt had asked her the proper dinnertime etiquette for when one discovered something like a bit of bone or a cherry stone in a mouthful of food, Mama had said cheerfully, "Hanged if I know. I just sneak it back to the edge of the plate."
"Should I use a fork or fingers?"
"There's not really a right way to do it, darling, just be discreet."
"Mama, there's always a right way.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Disguise

“The history of progress is the history of people who didn’t follow rules.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Conscience over Nonsense

“I nod because I do understand. About owing. About hating it. I understand that if Thresh wins, he'll have to go back and face a district that has already broken all the rules to thank me, and he is breaking the rules to thank me, too. And I understand that for the moment, Thresh is not going to smash in my skull.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games