Top 650 Invariably Quotes & Sayings

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

Capture of a wild animal is invariably traumatic.

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

People who enjoy what they do, invariably do it well.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

Identity is invariably false to facts.

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

The trouble with flowers is that invariably, when I'm ready to photograph them, they are not in season.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.

Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone.

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

Real faith invariably produces holiness of heart and righteousness of life.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.

Persecution always says, 'I know the consequences of your opinion better than you know them yourselves.' But the language of toleration was always amicable, liberal, and just: it confessed its doubts, and acknowledged its ignorance ... Persecution had always reasoned from cause to effect, from opinion to action, [that such an opinion would invariably lead to but one action], which proved generally erroneous; while toleration led us invariably to form just conclusions, by judging from actions and not from opinions.

It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.

Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

People in their early 20s are invariably weird.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.

A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end

What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.

I invariably do some of my best thinking on Saturdays.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.