Quotes About Contradiction

Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

Creer que el cielo en un infierno cabe

His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

He was a man of his times. with one virtue and a thousand crimes. (The Corsair)

What did I think of him? I, who'd worked with him hand-in-glove longer than all the rest, and who knew him better than anyone -- including Mrs. Blackthorne? He was a first-class son of a bitch. But how many men have you known who were first in their class at anything?

I'm no good at being good.

Malo se ona trudila, i mnogo se kajala, / I Å¡ap?u?i >Nikad ne?u pristati< — uvijek pristajala.« (Byron)

The things we protest against the most are often the very things we need to

Welcome, the man said in utter contradiction to his urban street clothes. He eyed the vibrator in Cooper's hand but whatever his thoughts were on a guy wielding a vibrator, he kept to himself. I'll get some candles.

Hell's bells, irony blows.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste.

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

Everyone thinks that hate and love are somehow opposite forces. They are not. They are the same force, facing opposite directions... Love turned the wrong way has killed as many as hate.

Some things just aren't meant to go together. Thinks like oil and Water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Wizards and television. ... Maybe some things aren't meant to go together. Things like oil and water. Orange juice and toothpaste. Me and Susan.

I had seen the Titan's weakness: She had the vices of her virtues.

There is a spine of goofiness in America that has never been deterred by literacy

Raised to believe that her life would be, as her great-grandmother's was said to have been, one ceaseless round of fixed and settled principles, aims, motives, and activity, she could sometimes think of nothing to do but walk downtown, check out the Bon Marche for clothes she could not afford, buy a cracked crab for dinner and take a taxi home.

Some people around San Bernardino say that Arthwell Hayton suffered; others say that he did not suffer at all. Perhaps he did not, for time past is not believed to have any bearing upon time present, or future, out in the golden land where every day the world is born anew.

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.

Whenever I hear about the woman's trip, which is often, I think a lot about nothin'-says-lovin'-like-something-from-the-oven and the Feminine Mystique and how it is possible for people to be the unconscious instruments of values they would strenuously reject on a conscious level

The apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and why we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.

It is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying oneself Cathy in Wuthering Heights with one's head in a Food Fair bag.