Quotes About Caprice

lifts up a prophet to-day that it may stone him to-morrow; which clamours for the book everybody else is reading, for no reason under the sun save that everybody else is reading it. This is the class of whim and caprice, of fad and vogue, the unstable, incoherent, mob-mouthed, mob-minded mass, the "monkey-folk," if you please, of these latter days.

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased. Some

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

I am the very child of caprice and folly.

As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; / They kill us for their sport

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

tree. How she feels enslaved of herself, then exposed suddenly, to the plummeting temperature. Weather's self-indulgent caprice chills her body.

Gaiety and grief and despair and tenderness and triumph followed one another without any connection, like the emotions of a madman. And those emotions, like a madman's, sprang up quite unexpectedly.

Their heritage of instability, extravagant caprice, and natural elegance was their paternal portion.

È terribile quando il nostro destino dipende dal capriccio di un'unica persona.

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.

Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for sport.

La camera si riempì ora di azioni decise e precise, le quali però, essendo nate dalla noia, dall'oziosità, dal capriccio, celavano in sé una certa dose di imbecillità.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

to the sense of coming events and mysterious felicity and fear at hand, while as yet there is no substance of fact on which these phantoms of caprice can fix and feed? Over these fancies thought hovers, conceiving impossible projects, giving in the germ all the joys of love. Perhaps, indeed, all passion is contained in that thought-germ, as the beauty, and fragrance, and rich color of the flower is all packed in the seed.

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

rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.

You can't take their type too seriously; they will be all steamed up over an idea today, but by tomorrow will have dropped it for some other wild notion.

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice