The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the…

Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or…

— Aristotle

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable,…

— Gertrude Stein

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two…

— Charles Baudelaire

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in…

— Octavio Paz

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and…

— Joseph Addison

One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and…

— Charles Baudelaire

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

— Stephanie Tubbs Jones

The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump…

— Anonymous

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels…

— Henry Walter Bates

Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson