Contrary may refer to:
- Contrary (logic) is the relationship between two propositions when they cannot both be true.
- Contrary motion, in music theory
- Contrary Magazine, a literary journal founded at the University of Chicago
- Contrary (social role), in certain Amerindian cultures
- Contrary (comics), a character from Malibu Comics' Ultraverse
- Little Miss Contrary, a Little Miss character
Famous quotes containing the word contrary:
“Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the King, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)