Quotes About Caprice

Our laws concerning animals are a system of inconsistencies, special privileges, and arbitrary dispensations best described as codified caprice.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

Whimsy is fate, too: just less knowable.

Hollywood is silly sometimes.

The sea was his mistress, one with the power to heal, nurture, love, torture… or destroy at her caprice.

Seguirán sin comprender, seguirán hablando de caprichos de la vida, de avatares de la fortuna o del destino de la persona. No sabe que es absurdo hablar del destino sin relacionarlo con la naturaleza social del mundo en el que uno vive

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.

L'art de persuader consiste autant en celui d'agréer qu'en celui de convaincre, tant les hommes se gouvernent plus par caprice que par raison.

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.

Hay días en que me siento dispuesto a hacerlo todo y otros en que me siento incapaz de hacer nada; lo que ahora me es grato, en ocasiones suele desagradarme.

It's probably those lactose-intolerant freaks. We all know there's nothing cool about intolerance.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which is the kindest thing I can say for it. Other are required, other perspectives, but even so our most important ceremonies – birth, love, and death – are secured by whomever and whatever is available. What chance, what caprice!

Call it boldness, call it madness, call it fortune or the will of the gods or the caprice of dragons. Who can know the mind of such a beast?

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is "systematic." The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. (The only rule of thumb was: whatever is not compulsory is forbidden.) Thus, the ruled can always be found to be in the wrong.

Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?

And in that city Ferrante's rise began, at the outer edge of the Spanish court, where he learned that the virtue of sovereigns is their caprice, and Power is an insatiable monster, to be served with slavish devotion in order to snatch every crumb falling from that table.