Fickle Quotes
133 quotes by 115 authors
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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men…
— Charles Dickens
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The fickle populace always change with the prince.
— Claudius Claudianus
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The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
— Robert Genn
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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.
— Chloe Sevigny
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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people…
— Emma Goldman
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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
— Mason Cooley
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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
— Emily Dickinson
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I know people are fickle.
— William Hague
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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.…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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You may get an emotional thrill when you first buy something, but emotions are fickle. You buy that one thing you think will complete your…
— Joyce Meyer
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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
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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's…
— Marilyn Monroe
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and…
— Rachel Nichols
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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
— William Osler
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With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
— Johnny Vegas
Who Wrote These Fickle Quotes
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