Quotes About Fickleness

#1. There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Gordon Ramsay

#2. She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#3. The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.

Propertius

#5. FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. There is no fickleness about Jesus: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.

J.C. Ryle

#7. Women are never tired of bewailing man's fickleness in love, but they only seem to snub his constancy.

Thomas Hardy

#8. As usual, the fickle, unreasoning world took Muff Potter to its bosom and fondled him as lavishly as it had abused him before. But that sort of conduct is to the world's credit; therefore it is not well to find fault with it.

Mark Twain

#9. Many pursue no fixed goal, but are tossed about in ever-changing designs by a fickleness which is shifting, inconstant and never satisfied with itself.

Seneca.

#10. No fickleness in flight like that of wind or women's fancy,

Patrick Rothfuss

#11. Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.

Steven Furtick

#12. Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Joseph Addison

#13. Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

Bertrand Meyer

#14. Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally inundated with demands from hundreds of think tanks and public-policy groups, all vying for my limited funds

Mark Skousen

#15. Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.

Seneca The Younger

#16. The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Alexander Hamilton

#17. Perseverance in almost any plan is better than fickleness and fluctuation. (Alexander Hamilton, July 1792)

Ron Chernow

#18. All the Amore siblings had The Sight in varying degrees, and its fickleness got us into trouble sometimes.

Suzanne Palmieri

#19. Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.

Camille Paglia

#20. Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.

Kelley Armstrong

#21. Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?'
'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#22. The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#23. What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

Ben Shahn

#24. I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

Gore Vidal

#25. I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely
to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.

Miguel De Cervantes

#26. I want to continue to constantly put out great music, expand further and further with the live show and music that is attracting music fans from all over the place, not only for ravers or electronic heads.

Skrillex

#27. A characteristic of the flesh is its fickleness: it alternates between Yes and No and vice versa. But the will of God is: "Walk not according to the flesh (not even for a moment) but according to the Spirit."

Watchman Nee

#28. Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

William Shakespeare

#29. Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but ... many, following no fixed aim, shifting and ... dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course.

Seneca.

#30. Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

Giacomo Casanova

#31. Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.

Ernest Cline

#32. Just look at your mind for a few minutes. You will see that it is like a flea, constantly hopping to and fro. You will see that thoughts arise without any reason, without any connection. Swept along by the chaos of every moment, we are the victims of the fickleness of our mind.

Sogyal Rinpoche