Caprice Quotes

65 Caprice quotes by 52 unique authors

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
I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice. — Pedro Almodovar
Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a… — Jean Lorrain
Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies… — William Hazlitt
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds… — Marquis de Sade
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. — Voltaire
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. — Oscar Wilde
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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