Quotes About Capricious

A woman is always a fickle, unstable thing.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."

Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.

It was if the charming theatrical curtain had dropped away and I saw him for the first time as he really was: not the benign old sage, the indulgent and protective good-parent of my dreams, but ambiguous, a moral neutral, whose beguiling trappings concealed a being watchful, capricious, and heartless.

And how can we lose this maddening self, lose it entirely? Love? Yes, but as old Cephalus once heard Sophocles say, the least of us know that love is a cruel and terrible master. One loses oneself for the sake of the other, but in doing so becomes enslaved and miserable to the most capricious of all the gods.

real age, as I came to see from the genuine pieces that passed through my hands, was variable, crooked, capricious, singing here and sullen there, warm asymmetrical streaks on a rosewood cabinet from where a slant of sun had struck it while the other side was as dark as the day it was cut.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing

Trump was Trump—careless, capricious, disloyal, far beyond any sort of control.

the president's views of foreign policy and the world at large were among its most random, uninformed, and seemingly capricious aspects.

When a cat chooses to be friendly, it's a big deal, because a cat is picky.

The subconscious mind is capricious and therefore paradoxical, it does not listen to the wisdom of the universe.