Hunger cannot bear contradiction. [ Proverb ]
The world is full of contradiction. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Woman is at best a contradiction still. [ Pope ]
Contradiction should awaken attention, not passion. [ Proverb ]
A downright contradiction is equally mysterious to wise men as to fools. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is. [ Amiel ]
When the devil of contradiction once possesses a man, he is hard to be cast out. [ Proverb ]
Too much magnifying of man or matter doth irritate contradiction, and procure envy and scorn. [ Bacon ]
Laws should never be in contradiction to usages; for, if the usages are good, the laws are valueless. [ Voltaire ]
Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong. [ Schiller ]
The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers. [ James Martineau ]
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him. [ Carlyle ]
The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction. [ Willmott ]
A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]
Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]
A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. [ Joseph Addison ]