Virginia Woolf: Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way

Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way-- her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives, were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady.

 --Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Mrs Dalloway (pub. 1925)