Inconsistency Quotes

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

You talk one way, you live another.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.... The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

... always an honest man, often a wise one, but sometimes ... absolutely out of his senses.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

A man of extreme fickleness of principle and full of childish vanity

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.