Thomas Otway Quotes

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

You can never trust a human being to behave as you would have expected in a given circumstance

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

I'm inconsistent because I'm human.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

History is a fickle lady.