Stubborn means steadfastly refusing to change opinions or position.
Stubborn has been used as a name for the following:
- HMS Stubborn (P238), an S class submarine
- Little Miss Stubborn, a character in the Little Miss series of books
- Mr. Stubborn, a character on the children's television show The Mr. Men Show
- Louis X of France, King of France called "the Stubborn"
Famous quotes containing the word stubborn:
“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail
Our lion now will foreign foes assail.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry’s stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness which ... constitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.”
—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)
“I, who had heard of music in the spheres,
But not of speech in stars, began to muse:
But turning to my God, whose ministers
The stars and all things are; If I refuse,
Dread Lord, said I, so oft my good;
Then I refuse not ev’n with blood
To wash away my stubborn thought:
For I will do or suffer what I ought.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)