Quotes About Contradiction

The strictest justice is sometimes the greatest injustice.

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights have no great objection to setting them wrong.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

I have admired W.C. Fields since the day he advanced upon Baby LeRoy with an ice pick. Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

If Roosevelt were alive he'd turn in his grave.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

I've always been well liked. I was so popular in school, everybody hated me.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

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

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; Some thought, much whim, and all contradiction.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.

I behave in some ways like a lover - I undress her, I bathe her, I stroke her, I sleep beside her - but I might equally well tie her to a chair and beat her, it would be no less intimate.