Invariable Quotes

#1. Her life was invariable, like a low hum; and it was watched over by her mother, who, when Edith was a child, would sit for hours watching her paint her pictures or play her piano, as if no other occupation were possible for either of them.

John Edward Williams

#2. I'd spent my whole life waiting to awake on an ordinary morning in the town that was destined to be my home, in the arms of the woman I was destined to love, knowing the people and doing the work that would make up the changing but essentially invariable landscape of my particular destiny.

Michael Chabon

#3. I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

H.L. Mencken

#4. It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character presented me with a sort of negative proof of my own.

Marcel Proust

#5. People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#6. What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

Saint Augustine

#7. Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, lie low, go slow, and keep cool.

Rudyard Kipling

#8. History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.

Auguste Comte

#9. It has been said that large staffs are the invariable sign of bad armies.

David Fraser

#10. .. . one cannot hope to protect mankind from crimes such as those that were visited upon us unless one struggles to brek the cycle of hatred and voilence that invariable leads to ever more suffering by innocent human beings.

Thomas Buergenthal

#11. There is no more invariable rule in the history of society: the further electoral rights are extended, the greater is the need of extending them; for after each concession the strength of the democracy increases, and its demands increase with its strength.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#12. If laws and principles were fixed and invariable, nations would not change them as readily as we change our shirts.

Honore De Balzac

#13. Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Jean-Luc Godard

#14. To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence
an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Samuel Johnson

#15. Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.

Lord Chesterfield

#16. Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct
never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Lord Chesterfield

#17. It is simply an invariable truth in the history of politics, in the history of government, that whenever a new power is acquired in the name of some threat, it always - not sometimes, not often, not usually -it always extends beyond its original application, beyond its original justification.

Glenn Greenwald

#18. Cuisine is not invariable like a Codex formula. But one must guard against tampering with the essential bases.

Fernand Point

#19. I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

Randall Dale Adams

#20. The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the history books, not newspapers.
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

Carl Bernstein

#21. And Elinor, in quitting Norland and Edward, cried not as I did. Even now her self-command is invariable. When is she dejected or melancholy? When does she try to avoid society, or appear restless and dissatisfied in it?

Jane Austen

#22. This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

Julia Child

#23. I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

#24. She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

Jane Austen

#25. There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.

Alice Hegan Rice

#26. There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. when the voters turned away to listen to the teachings of Democracy, the invariable result has been national disaster and humiliation and a retarding of progress.

George Washington Platt

#28. As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Henry David Thoreau

#29. The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state.

Arthur David Ritchie

#30. Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en route for that State, the invariable reply was, - Well, if you will make those people feel the utmost severities of war, we will pardon you for your desolation of Georgia.

William Tecumseh Sherman

#31. Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.

Charles De Secondat

#32. If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Mary Baker Eddy

#33. The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Edward Gibbon

#34. It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.

Isaac Asimov

#35. Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

Charles De Secondat

#36. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.

Christina Baldwin

#37. An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

John Locke

#38. These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

Edward Gibbon

#39. Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Henry David Thoreau