"The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14062/14062-h/14062-h.htm (February 28, 1885)<br>reprinted in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea:The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991). <br class="br">Variant: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down
"The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14062/14062-h/14062-h.htm (February 28, 1885) <br class="br">reprinted in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea:The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991) <br class="br">Source: A Long Way Down
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
"Wordsworth in the Tropics" in Do What You Will (1929)
Source: Do What You Will: Twelve Essays
Context: Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.
“A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.”
James Callaghan (1912–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
Post-Prime Ministerial
Source: The Harvard Business Review (1 November 1986)
“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Source: The Woman in White
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Speech on Military Preparedness, Pittsburgh (29 January 1916)
1910s
Context: We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency—clear, disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought. America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us; and it can consist of all of us only as our spirits are banded together in a common enterprise.
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
In the perl man page.
Documentation
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
Message-ID &lt;20050516005559.GC26184@wall.org&gt; http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/21259, to perl6-language mailing-list. <br class="br">Other
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician
Source: 'My challenge to Mrs Thatcher', The Times (21 September 1985), p. 8
