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In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.
Anthony Trollope
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
Albert Einstein
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
Stephen Vizinczey
Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
George Bernard Shaw
Constants aren't.
John Peers
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
Francis Bacon
A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau
Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.
Horace
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Joseph Joubert
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous Huxley
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
Charlotte Bronte
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
Dennis Conner
What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
Mark Twain
No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.
Horatio Smith
Without consistency there is no moral strength.
Owen
