Quotes About Fickleness

Your faith will abandon you in blink of an eye.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right. A Muse by these is like a mistress used, This hour she's idolized, the next abused; While their weak heads, like towns unfortified, 'Twixt sense and nonsense daily change their side. Ask them the cause; they're wiser still they say; And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day.

With varying vanities, from ev'ry part,   They shift the moving Toyshop of their heart; 100   Where wigs with wigs, with sword-knots sword-knots strive,   Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive.

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

It is undoubtedly rare for a man not to soon grow tired of a woman, but it is impossible to maintain that everything rare is undesirable.

Most women are moody and whimsical.

Elizabeth had always been capricious. The blue sky of her approval could turn in an instant to lowering black clouds—and back again.

She was as false as water.

Relenting fool, and shallow changing woman!

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.Men were deceivers ever;One foot in sea, and one on shore,To one thing constant never.

Romeo: Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swearThat tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops—Juliet: O! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circled orb,Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.

Let still the woman takeAn elder than herself, so wears she to him,So sways she level in her husband's heart:For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,Than women's are.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.

You never know what the weather's gonna do. And the same with music, you never know if radio's going to play your single.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.