Inconsistent Actions Quotes

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Flip-flopping is kind of an easy thing to identify. During a recent convention, we heard an irate Senator make an angry speech declaring that it is not what you say but, rather, what you do that counts. You flip-flop when you make promises and fail to fulfill them.

A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?

My father was a very contradictory man.

They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?

You’ve got to give him one thing. A guy has to have some brass for attacking someone for what he did himself.