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Quotes About Inconstancy

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
~ Jane Austen
Eso pasa a diario, Miguel, continuamente. La gente empieza viendo una cosa y acaba viendo la contraria. Empieza amando y acaba odiando, o sintiendo indiferencia y después adorando. Nunca logramos estar seguros de qué va a sernos vital ni de a quién vamos a dar importancia. Nuestras convicciones son pasajeras y endebles, hasta las que consideramos más fuertes. También nuestros sentimientos. No deberíamos fiarnos.
~ Javier Marías
Some praise at morning what they blame at night.
~ Alexander Pope
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. A Muse by these is like a mistress used, This hour she's idolized, the next abused; While their weak heads, like towns unfortified, 'Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side. Ask them the cause; they're wiser still they say; And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day.
~ Alexander Pope
Forever always seems to be around when it begins, but forever never seems to be around when it ends
~ Ben Harper
She was as false as water.
~ William Shakespeare
Relenting fool, and shallow changing woman!
~ William Shakespeare
I am a feather for each wind that blows.
~ William Shakespeare
Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swearThat tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—Juliet: O! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circled orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
~ William Shakespeare
From what I hear of what has been appearing in the newspapers," Ike wrote his son John, "you are learning that it is easy enough for a man to be a newspaper hero one day and a bum the next.
~ Jean Edward Smith
I feel like that's one of my problems; I feel like I'm not consistent enough.
~ Evan Fournier
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
~ Abraham Cowley
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As thou too shalt adore; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.
~ Richard Lovelace
Attitude?" I said. "After I got you this lucrative gig?" "Go track down a criminal," Marty said. "Okay," I said. Adele smiled at me, though I think Marty had replaced me in her affections, or Vinnie, or maybe both. Inconstancy, thy name is Adele.
~ Robert B. Parker
Takes a while for a person to decide what they like best. Some folks never do decide. Always changing their mind, back and forth.
~ Robert Ferrigno
In a few years, he will be replaced. The boys will become enamored with other things, other people, embarrassed by him and Nahil.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Bold didn't know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
for we are all definitely always falling apart, and not massively entrenched in anything at all.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Me: How can I want you then when I don't want you now?
~ Jennifer Niven
What vain weather-cocks we are!
~ Emily Bronte
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
~ Emily Dickinson
Les pensées sont des femmes, on les renifle, on les suit, on s'engrise et puis brusquement, le désir bifurque et l'on va voir ailleurs.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
~ Blaise Pascal