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Quotes About Inconstant

The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all inconstant.
~ George R.R. Martin
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.
~ Glendon Swarthout
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
~ Virgil
A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.
~ Virgil
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are.
~ William Shakespeare
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.
~ lavater johann kaspar iii
Let me be able to fancy that a better knowledge of my heart, and of my present feelings, will draw from her a more spontaneous, more natural, more gentle, less dignified, forgiveness. Tell her of my misery and my penitence—tell her that my heart was never inconstant to her, and if you will, that at this moment she is dearer to me than ever.
~ Jane Austen
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay Sets you rich in youth before my sight, Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, To change your day of youth to sullied night; And all in war with Time for love of you, As he takes from you I engraft you new.
~ William Shakespeare
the primary meaning of "Zelig" should be when one searches for a word to describe one who keeps abandoning his position and adopting the new popular one.
~ Woody Allen
For it is a truth, that fortune is inconstant, fickle and mutable.
~ Hilary Mantel
You might find it a restless, verdant, inconstant sight: the wind caresses, ruffles, disturbs the mass of leaves; each tree answers to the weather's ministrations at a slightly different tempo from its neighbour, bending and shuddering and tossing its branches, as if trying to get away from the air, from the very soil that nourishes
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The awful shadow of some unseen PowerFloats though unseen among us—visitingThis various world with as inconstant wingAs summer winds that creep from flower to flower.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley