Quotes About Caprice

I myself have accepted the term [neoconservative], perhaps, because, having been named Irving, I am relatively indifferent to baptismal caprice.

All interpretation is a use of violence and caprice against a text.

Il vino è un grande pericolo specie perchè non porta a galla la verità. Tutt'altro che la verità anzi: rivela dell'individuo specialmente la sua attuale volontà; getta capricciosamente alla luce anche tutte le ideuccie con le quali in epoca più o meno recente ci si baloccò e che si sono dimenticate; trascura le cancellature e legge tutto quello ch'è ancora percettibile nel nostro cuore.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Looking at her lying there, he thought what an appalling risk these lovers of 'happiness' take, when they bum their ships and trust their lives to the caprice of men.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

Little known fact: sometimes wizards do things just because it amuses them.

With graceful deviations in which caprice is blended with virtuosity

En el envidioso existe una voluntad, una actitud de esfuerzo o, en el peor de los casos, de capricho, que indirectamente lo hace culto, laborioso, incansable. La envidia es el único vicio que se alimenta de virtudes, que vive gracias a ellas.

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

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

Or on the whim of a deity. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.