Fickle Quotes

• Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

  Emma Goldman

  Baby, Color, People

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.41, PM Press

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• All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea.

  Venerable Bede

  Sea, Storm, World

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• Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Literature, May, Gains

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• Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

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• 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

  Mind, Persuasion, Easy

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.21, Booklassic

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• O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Circles, Variables

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 107

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• Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

  Tyra Banks

  Firefighter, Design, Next

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• I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.

  Fred Savage

  Education, Jobs, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

  Timothy Zahn

  Change, Smile, Rocks

  Timothy Zahn (2012). “The Icarus Hunt”, p.346, Spectra

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• What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

  William Osler

  Love, Mistress, Elude

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

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• Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.

  Hannah Arendt

  Opportunity, May, Opinion

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• Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Fame, Drawbacks

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• I know people are fickle.

  William Hague

  People, Knows

  "Decca Aitkenhead meets William Hague". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• The passion for money is never fickle.

  Mason Cooley

  Passion

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• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Disease, Transcendentalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America

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• I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.

  Plutarch

  Men, People, Vindictive

  Plutarch, William Watson Goodwin (1874). “Plutarch's Morals”

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• Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She 'll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can't imagine why or whence; Then in a moment Presto, pass! Your joys are withered like the grass

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Years, Weather, Joy

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1852). “Lillian: And Other Poems”, p.64

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• 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.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Years, Reader

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dumb, Luck

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• Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

  Ali Smith

  Fashion, Gay, Fashionable

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• People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fashion, People, Musical

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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• Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.

  Criss Jami

  Love Is, Opposites, Doubt

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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• My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

  Julie Burchill

  Friday, Husband, Attitude

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• Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time.

  Frederick Rolfe

  War, Twenties, Able

  "Hadrian the Seventh" by Frederick Rolfe, Penguin Modern Classics edition, Harmondsworth, (p. 58), 1963.

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• Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

  Davy Crockett

  Struggle, Flirting, Justice

  Davy Crockett (1859). “Life of Col. David Crockett”, p.7

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