Caprice Quotes

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A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute. — Rachilde
Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost… — Richard Halliburton
Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going… — Richard Halliburton
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. — Hermann Ebbinghaus
Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else… — Winston Churchill
They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions… — Samuel Johnson
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,… — Samuel Johnson
To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It… — Karl Barth
One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty… — Thomas Paine
The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population. The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they… — Benito Mussolini
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day… — Edith Wharton
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as… — George Washington
Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and… — George Washington
The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter… — J. W. N. Sullivan
The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our… — Oscar Wilde
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth,… — Ludwig Feuerbach
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to… — John Lahr

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