Inconsistency Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Inconsistency


Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the great weakness of human nature. Addison.	1
Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves. Balzac.	2
Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe! Macaulay.	3
Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course. L’Estrange.	4
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it. Colton.	5
I have known several persons of great fame for wisdom in public affairs and councils governed by foolish servants. I have known great ministers, distinguished for wit and learning, who preferred none but dunces. I have known men of valor cowards to their wives. I have known men of cunning perpetually cheated. I knew three ministers who would exactly compute and settle the accounts of a kingdom, wholly ignorant of their own economy. Horace Walpole.	6