Top 100 A Bully Quotes
#1. Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.
Charles Caleb Colton
#2. He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.
David Kushner
#3. It does, Tennyson, because there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance. There's a fine line between being assertive and being a bully. And you're on the wrong side of both lines.
Neal Shusterman
#4. Go and don't come back, you can take the catmint. I have no quarrel with ThunderClan; I don't want to see cats suffer, whatever you might think. Just be careful you don't end up like a bully like your kin, Tigerstar.
Erin Hunter
#5. With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.
Graeme Souness
#6. To him, the pain was a bully, and what did you do to bullies? You stood up to them, because they always ran away in the end. But the pain didn't know about that rule. It just bullied even more.
Terry Pratchett
#7. Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
Michael Eric Dyson
#8. I've realized that you become a bully if you are just watching someone get bullied and you don't say anything. Speak up!
Emma Roberts
#9. I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.
Amber Riley
#10. I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't ... But I am not a bully.
Chris Christie
#11. I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.
Lily Cole
#12. I remember a bully once telling me that he was going to beat the stuffing out of me. After numerous blows it was evident to both of us that I didn't have any!!
Neil Leckman
#13. A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.
Keith Olbermann
#14. Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.
Leonard Sax
#15. Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.
Andrew Vachss
#16. Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.
Roseanne Barr
#17. Bully, she muttered.
When it comes to you, baby, I don't mind being labeled a bully.
Maya Banks
#19. I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.
Jeb Bush
#20. When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
Kiefer Sutherland
#21. [Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.
Kelly Ayotte
#22. The man was a bully. A bully who'd elevated himself to a high-level position, but a bully just the same. No amount of flattery would change how I saw him.
Gwenda Bond
#23. Just because the bully was always nice to you, never stole your lunch money, didn't make him any less of a bully, did it?
Genevieve Dewey
#24. We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
Michelle Obama
#25. Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors.
Martin Kove
#26. My father was not a bully. I almost never heard him raise his voice to anybody.
Ron Reagan
#27. I know I'm not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that's fine with me.
NeNe Leakes
#28. All you'll ever be is a faded memory of a bully.
Shinedown
#29. Persistence is a writer's best friend disguised as a bully.
A.M. McKnight
#30. This question: 'How do I deal with a bully without becoming a thug in return?' has been with me ever since I was a child.
Scilla Elworthy
#31. Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
Edan Lepucki
#32. Snape was a bully who loved the goodness he sensed in Lily without being able to emulate her. That was his tragedy.
J.K. Rowling
#33. I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.
Elton John
#34. And dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street outside.
Norman Mailer
#35. A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
Marie De France
#36. If a bully mocks you, just think about your positive values compared to the bully and ignore his or her harsh comments.
Saaif Alam
#37. If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.
Charles Djou
#38. Oh, they have just a bully time - take ships and burn them, and get the money and bury it in awful places in their island where there's ghosts and things to watch it, and kill everybody in the ships - make 'em walk a plank.
Mark Twain
#39. Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it.
Paul Watson
#40. The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else.
Seth Godin
#41. You know, for years I used to read about myself. They'd say, 'He has a temper' or 'He's a bully' or something like that, and it always bothered me.
Harvey Weinstein
#42. A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will fall despite its military might. If the Bush administration ever wanted to reflect on history, it might think about this.
Mark Kurlansky
#43. When a bully is held accountable for his actions, his future actions will change. Bad behavior only continues for those who allow it.
Gary Hopkins
#44. I do not at all have the mind of a bully ... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me.
Conrad Black
#45. You're a bully and I know you don't care, but I just thought you should know that I think you're scum. He's probably some miserable kid with his own demons and he doesn't need yours.
Melina Marchetta
#46. Hope was a beacon but it also had the strength of a bully.
Deb Caletti
#47. A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun.
Tamora Pierce
#48. Now a Bully can seem like a MONSTER or Just a Mad Kid with nothing to do.
For reasons unknown, they are angry and
they seem to like picking on YOU!
David Freeman
#49. You know what really shuts up a bully? Learning how to build a pipe-bomb!
Daniel Tosh
#50. The Empire is a thug, a bully. It's no better than Surat Nuat, or Black Sun, or the syndicate of Hutts. The Empire pretends it's about law and order, but at the end of the day, it's about dressing up oppression in the costume of justice.
Chuck Wendig
#51. When we remember someone as a drunk, a liar, a bully, we're only creating an excuse for our own poor behavior.
Chuck Palahniuk
#52. My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'
Al Franken
#54. Thanks for being such a bully." I flattened my expression. "I wasn't a bully. I was merely a persistent peddler of holiday cheer.
Penny Reid
#56. I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2. As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.
Nicole Beharie
#57. Is Mitt Romney a bully? And the answer is, no ... He does not have a vicious bone in his body.
Kerry Healey
#58. Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.
N.K. Jemisin
#59. Cullen was a bully. Bullies are cowards. You plant your feet and stay calm, they don't know what to do.
Eric Plume
#61. But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
Roger Daltrey
#62. A bully is one who forces you to laugh at his jokes, even if they are not jokes. That is how you know he is a bully. A
Joyce Carol Oates
#63. She was a line usurper and a bully. I wasn't in the mood to be bullied or usurped.
Penny Reid
#64. With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
#66. He was a bad man, a bully and a thug, yet he was deeply religious in his way - I very much doubt that he would have made such a thing up. It was not his sort of lie, if you know what I mean.
Gene Wolfe
#67. Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.
Pierre Boulez
#68. Want to help stop the bullying epidemic? Don't act like a bully. Don't hit, threaten, ignore, isolate, intimidate, ridicule, or manipulate your child. Children really do learn what they live ...
L.R. Knost
#69. It's unclear whether Brauser was trying to hit Franz Josef or Rangi. I hope it was the former. There's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim.
Karen Russell
#70. The easiest way to disarm a bully or a jerk is to take any insult he throws at you and follow it with, 'I know, and isn't it fabulous?!
Dan Pearce
#71. I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm hands upon me in public and wounded me in private, your noble face hid your filthy ways, and your sorrow was but laughter.
Jenny Jay
#73. Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
Theodore Roosevelt
#74. Toughness is not being a bully, it's having a backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki
#75. Don't you ever think,' he asked cautiously, 'that it would be better to be a bully than to be bullied? At least that way no one could ever hurt you.'
Katarina turned to him in amazement. 'No,' she said definitively, shaking her head. 'No Pieter, I never think that, not for a moment.
John Boyne
#76. If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#77. How can you say bad things about someone you don't know?" I shout. "How can you hate a stranger? Why do you have to pick on people?" she's not better than Yaqui. It's like everywhere there's a bully in my face.
Meg Medina
#78. My submission didn't make me weak, just as David's domination didn't make him a bully; far from it. Outside of the bedroom, David was the kindest man I knew.
Terri George
#79. A true warrior can only serve others, not himself ... When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.
Evan Wright
#80. A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki
#81. I think you're wrong."
"Well I think you're naive," Hayley snapped.
"Maybe," Marley conceded, starting to walk away. "But I'd rather be that than a bully like you.
Kate Lattey
#82. Never be a bully. Bullying always hurts. The person you bullied may try to walk around with a smile on there face, but the pain may never go away.
Timothy Pina
#83. There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.
Lisa Kleypas
#84. Maybe you never considered yourself a bully, a batterer or an abuser before, but maybe you are - to yourself.
Bryant McGill
#85. Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I'll show you a bully and bore.
Robert Morley
#86. You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward.
Jeffrey Archer
#87. Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
Octavia E. Butler
#90. I tried to smile back. Now, don't get me wrong. Sam Carroll wasn't a creep or a bully or anything. It's just that he was... well, he was Sam Carroll, for goodness' sake. I'd only known him for forever and he'd only followed me around for even longer.
Rachel Coker
#91. A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You're welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.
Seth Godin
#92. Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.
Patrick Ness
#93. She didn't like being stuck indoors because of a bully.
Jeanne Birdsall
#94. A bully can only make you feel bad about yourself if you let them.
David Walliams
#95. I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.
Mark Skousen
#96. Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
Robert Morley
#97. Thank God I've got a woman! Thank God I've got a woman who is with me, and tender and aware of me. Thank God she's not a bully, nor a fool. Thank God she's a tender, aware woman.
D.H. Lawrence
#98. Don't be a bully, don't be mean
Be a hero, don't be afraid to be seen.
Christina Engela
#99. Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.
Tom Felton
#100. People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
Earl Sweatshirt
