Quotes About Fickleness

He said ... Everyone's attention span is so short. They'll be mad about something new today.

the general run of politicians will always eschew those schemes for the future which are really difficult to put into practice; and they will practise this avoidance so that they may not lose the immediate favour of the mob. The importance and the success of such politicians belong exclusively to the present and will be of no consequence for the future. But that does not worry small-minded people; they are quite content with momentary results.

People get bored very quickly.

I get bored really fast.

I get bored easily.

My problem is that what I like changes from week to week. Even the stuff in my suitcase right now I don't like any more.

the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs. Yet

a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments;

The only constant in this town is its yearning for imbecility.

Too credulous a woman's longing flies And spreading swiftly, swiftly dies.

Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next.

Dicen que todo lo que sube baja y dicen que todo puede reemplazarse y en general dicen todo tipo de tonterías.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

It's funny how we can be in love with someone one day, and the next we can easily fall in love with someone else.

Those in favour rarely stayed in favour; it was just a question of when they fell.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

Where would the end be? Will the idea—the definition—of perfection stay the same? No. Perfection is too fickle. It's in our nature to never be satisfied. We always think we can do more.

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.