Quotes About Fickleness

Necio es el mortal que, creyéndose siempre feliz, se abandona al placer: la fortuna, cual furiosa delirante, salta aquí y allá, y a ninguno concede perpetua dicha

There was nothing, it seemed, that grew stale so soon as pleasure.

Az emberek folyton beleszeretnek egymásba, azután meg kiszeretnek egymásból.

To see all the things that happen to us as accidents or incidents from a novel, which we read not with our eyes but with life. Only with this attitude can we overcome the mischief of each day and the fickleness of events.

I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I'm so fickle and I like to change my mind a lot.

It's so important that we take auditions less seriously, take your work seriously, but take the industry a whole lot less seriously because it is so fickle.

America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.

When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.

You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.

La juventud ama la impostura como los perritos aman los palos de madera, los huesos que les tiran... ¡y corren detrás de ellos!, se precipitan, ladran, pierden el tiempo...

Ah, but the friends of to-day are the enemies of to-morrow;

Les amis d'aujourd'hui sont les ennemis de demain.

Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.

Sólo hace dos meses que la conozco ––replicó el conde. ––Y el señor sólo hace cinco minutos que me conoce. No dic e usted más que tonterías. Las mujeres son despiadadas con las personas que no son de su agrado.

One was tired of everything, it seemed. One launched into enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.

The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

The people support always a person in plenty as friends but only till his/her pocket has not got totally empty.