The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes. You deserve very little credit for being what you are

I would prefer not to.

I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one.

I just don't wanna be an ostrich. That's all.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I bear the creature no ill-will, but still I hate the very sight of it.

I am no bird, no net ensnares me.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

Moi, je ne tiens pas les rancunes et j'avoue tout, complaisamment : pour l'autocritique, je suis doué, à la condition qu'on ne prétende pas me l'imposer.

LADY SNEERWELL. I’m not disappointed in Snake, I never suspected the fellow to have virtue enough to be faithful even to his own Villany.