quotations about consistency
Consistency is the horror of the world.
BRENDA UELAND
If you Want to Write
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest and most universal causes of all our disquiet and unhappiness.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Sep. 5, 1711
Well the stars seem to shine even
When the clouds are there,
And it's night alright,
And I envy their consistency
LISA MITCHELL
"Slow", Said One to the Other
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency, and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency, and a vice.
MARK TWAIN
"Consistency,", The Complete Essays of Mark Twain
The consistent man, then, is not to be found, unless he be the man who cherishes the love, and practises the observance, of truth.
WILLIAM ELLIS
Outlines of History and Formation of the Understanding
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
TOM ROBBINS
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Jane Eyre
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failure.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
What do you see in me?
You've loved a long line of consistency
I'm a different breed
CARTER'S CHORD
"Different Breed"
The man who spends one-half of the day in studying what is just, and the other half in practicing what is so, shows a knowledge of consistency.
J. A. JAMES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Time is the promise
delivered with stunning consistency
QUEENSRYCHE
"The Whisper"
Consistency, thou art a jewel.
ANONYMOUS
A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does.
PAWAN MISHRA
Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy