Fickle Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fickle Marvellous Men Subjects Unstable Vain
Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable , and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. His innermost… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share
Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Man... is an inextricable tangle of culture and biology. And not being simple, he is not simply good; he has... a kind of hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath… — William A. Phillips Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day. — Lance Bass Copy Share Image
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on.… — Matthew Lawrence Copy Share Image
Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Wooly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated… — Alys Fowler Copy Share
But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
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