Inconstant Quotes

25 quotes by 22 authors

Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep… — Polybius
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have… — Christine de Pizan
But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and… — Faith Hunter
At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof them had to… — Therese of Lisieux
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening. — Denise Levertov
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's… — Florence Nightingale
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. — Walter Pater
While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant,… — Barbara Tuchman
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is… — Charles Darwin
She makes one happy, then miserable. You are to her kind, then unkind. Constant yet inconstant. Thus we have WOMAN. No real man can do… — Marcus Garvey
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand,… — Bill Vaughan
The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. — Andre Maurois
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light... — James Joyce
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise… — William Shakespeare
True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance… — William Shakespeare
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind… — Haruki Murakami
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for… — Jane Austen
Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him. — Dorothy Dunnett

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