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- 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… — Samuel Smiles
- The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone… — 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… — William Hazlitt
- We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,… — 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… — Charlotte Bronte
- It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison