Quotes About Contradiction

if you'd like it put more simply---Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

You might just as well say," added the March Hare, "that 'I like what I get' is the same thing as 'I get what I like'!

Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!

I know what you're thinking about," said Tweedle-dum, "But it ain't so, nohow." "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it)

But that's just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

Study your wife closely, for the next four-and-twenty hours. If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you!—you have married a monster.

But as soon as the thought enters my mind, another one swims in and eats the first one like a shark. Fuck that, it burps.

Feast for the Fisherman, the ultimate emo band. Said to be sold with a complimentary prescription for antidepressants and a free flatiron.

because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Dac? nu mori tân?r, uneori trebuie s? te contrazici.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

The human mind is complex. Telly can be both explosive and cunning. Impulsive and brilliant. One does not negate the other.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.

Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.