Quotes About Contradiction

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Hypocrite - mouth one way, belly 'nother way.

High school was interesting because I'm an extroverted introvert, meaning I'm sociably anti-social. I spent a lot of time saying I hated it, but truthfully, I enjoyed it for what it is.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

Vitello tonnato is a classic dish from Italy's Piedmont region that, frankly, sounds patently insane: veal slices dressed in a creamy sauce made from canned tuna and capers. The brain may say no, but the mouth disagrees.

There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

Nobody really turns out too happy in any of my stuff. It's really strange, because I'm actually a pretty happy person. I'm not walking around giggling or anything like that, but I've got this feeling that everything is okay with my life.

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years.

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

When I wanted information, it was silent; when I didn't want to hear from it, it got chatty. It was alost as irritating as Fang.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.