Caprice Quotes

65 quotes by 52 authors

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. — Max Eastman
Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty. — Jean de la Bruyere
How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod. — William Shakespeare
Idleness induces caprice. — James Russell Lowell
One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or… — Samuel Smiles
The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse… — William Hazlitt
We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice. — Jean de la Bruyere
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. — Jules Michelet
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same… — Charlotte Bronte
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will… — James Madison
Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human… — Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her. — Richard Bacon
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality… — Mark Twain
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night,… — Isadora Duncan
The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to… — Henry Hazlitt
Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice — Pico Iyer

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