Horace Smith Quotes

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

It's easy to make jokes about Donald Trump. There is such a difference between what he says and his behavior. It's not 180 degrees off with him. It's some sort of oblique angle.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good people, but only if bad things happen to them. Which is weird, isn't it?

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

The clammy hand of consistency has never rested for long upon my shoulder.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

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

I don't make any sense: I'm a germaphobe, but I'm really messy.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for.

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

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

It has been pointed out to me, more than once, that for someone who chose a profession steeped in procedure and protocol, I had little use for either.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

Principally, I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartedly love John, Peter, Thomas and so forth …