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Quotes About Fickleness

These impulses to buy new things that will eventually lose their novelty
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
~ Charles Bukowski
Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
~ Charles Bukowski
Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
~ John Malkovich
Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!
~ W. H. Gibson
I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.
~ Rupert Friend
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
~ Marcus Aurelius
For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
For, besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature: it is easy to convince them of something, but difficult to hold them in that conviction. Therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Die Menschen sind undankbar, unbeständig, heuchlerisch, furchtsam und eigennützig.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
~ la bruyere jean de iii
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
~ la rochefoucauld vi
Tides are like politics. They come and go with a great deal of fuss and noise, but inevitably they leave the beach just as they found it. On those few occasions when major change does occur, it is rarely a good news.
~ Jack McDevitt
Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her memory, and she in mine. That I would never grow resentful, never be tempted to betray her. That she would never grow restless and fickle, and see to replace me. So you see, not exactly the sentiments of a great and terrible love affair.
~ Jacqueline Carey
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.
~ Terence
Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased. Some
~ Colson Whitehead
A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever
~ Virgil
Sometimes she had it; sometimes not. She never knew why it came or why it went, or if she had it until she came into the room and then she knew instantly by the way some man looked at her
~ Virginia Woolf
Nobody listens for very long anyway. There's a new disease of the month every day.
~ Larry Kramer
That was his problem, you see, staying in love. When you fall in love as quickly as Gaspare did, when you can be swayed by the merest hint of feeling, the merest hitch in the blood, you can fall out of love just as fast - with places, with jobs, with women.
~ Laura Ruby
What a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?' 'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)
~ Charles Dickens