Inconsistent

Famous quotes containing the word inconsistent:

“Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)

“For by superior energies; more strict
Affiance in each other; faith more firm
In their unhallowed principles, the bad
Have fairly earned a victory o’er the weak,
The vacillating, inconsistent good.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)