Fickle Friends Quotes

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown. ~ Julie Burchill

I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on. ~ Fred Savage

I speak, I speak, and truth at that. Writers are a curious breed: brooding, fickle, alternately loving and hating their work - and each other. You're my friend? Don't pick up that pen! ~ Chila Woychik

I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life - that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive, and hungry. I could call it a longing for home and not be far wrong. Or I could call it a longing for whatever supersedes, if it cannot pass through, understanding. Other words that come to mind: faith, grace, rest. In my outward appearance and life habits I hardly change - there's never been a day that my friends haven't been able to say, and at a distance, "There's Oliver, still standing around in the weeds. There she is, still scribbling in her notebook." But, at the center: I am shaking; I am flashing like tinsel. Restless. I read about ideas. Yet I let them remain ideas. I read about the poet who threw his books away, the better to come to a spiritual completion. Yet I keep my books. I flutter; I am attentive, maybe I even rise a little, balancing; then I fall back. ~ Mary Oliver

To say that I fell into this love suggests a series of coincidences or just pure luck that takes away from the responsibility of my choice. For if our days are long or our nights bleak, when life springs unpleasant surprises along our way, I will remember that loving you was my choice. I will remember that love is much more than intense feelings. For feelings can be fickle and change so swiftly just in the course of one day. Know this then, my love. Know that this choice to forever link my life with yours was mine alone to make. With eyes wide open and clear, in the presence of God, our families, and our friends, I choose to spend the rest of my life with you and with you alone. ~ Yejide Kilanko

Naturally – she's an actress." He laughed wryly to himself. "Complications. Oh, yes." The doctor reflected and then said, "I always think a life without complications isn't really a life, you know. In life things go wrong, nothing stays the same and there's nothing you can do about it. Friends betray you, family is a nightmare, lovers are fickle. This is the norm, no?" He smiled to himself, as if remembering something pertinent. "What kind of a world would it be where nothing ever went wrong, where everything stayed the same, life followed a designated path – family was adorable, friends and lovers were faithful and true?" He paused. "You know, I don't think I'd like that kind of a world. We're made for complications, we human beings. Anyway, such a perfect world could never exist – at least not on this small planet. ~ William Boyd

The most fundamental seems fickle. ~ Laozi

America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for. ~ Lee Daniels

This is a very fickle and faithless generation. ~ William Kidd

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever. ~ Virgil

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing. ~ Virgil

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs. ~ Armando Iannucci

I court not the votes of the fickle mob. ~ Horace

Dogs are more loyal. Cats are fickle. ~ Carol Thatcher

Television can be a very fickle place. ~ Megyn Kelly

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion. ~ Alex Kapranos

Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. ~ Alexander Pope

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ~ William Osler

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know. ~ Bubba Sparxxx

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle. ~ William Shakespeare

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country. ~ Roberta Flack

Human memory is short and terribly fickle. ~ Janine Di Giovanni

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. ~ Francis I

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle. ~ Freida Pinto

How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends,
friends of friends ... ~ Laurel Burch

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that. ~ J.K. Rowling

I look at myself and read what people say on the internet and some fans say the club should get rid of me - which shows how fickle some people can be. ~ Robbie Savage

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. ~ Tom Brokaw

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly. ~ J. Lynn

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master. ~ Mark Twain

People are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

Fate is a fickle bitch. Just when you believe you've secured the goose that lays the golden egg, she back heels you in the bollocks. ~ Ken Scott

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

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 variable ~ William Shakespeare

Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference. ~ Franz Grillparzer

All the ways of this world are as fickle and unstable as a sudden storm at sea. ~ Venerable Bede

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day. ~ Emma Goldman

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry. ~ Charlie Hunter

Television is one of the most fickle businesses that there are, you are in favour one minute and out the next. ~ Jeff Greenfield

Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans. ~ Ishmael Reed

People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live. ~ Lacey Mosley

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are. ~ Joyce Meyer

The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made. ~ Chloe Sevigny

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

Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind; as are the legacies of those who flow with them. ~ Criss Jami

There were different categories of friends in Vince's opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends...but friend friends were harder to come by. ~ Kate Atkinson

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us. ~ Cullen Hightower

The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade
now bright and sunny
But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon
so called
of honey! ~ Thomas Hood

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay. ~ Ali Smith

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 something I experience, but that's not where I live. ~ Marilyn Monroe

I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow. ~ Plutarch

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other. ~ Swami Vivekananda

There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have. ~ Annie Lennox

Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according to your mysterious and unknowable workings of the universe. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

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 economic boom and bust. ~ Rachel Nichols

I don't speculate too much about the future. That's the thing about this job - it's so fickle. You take the jobs, you read the scripts and, if something interests you and you like the people who are working on it, you go for it. ~ Aidan Turner

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion. ~ Hannah Arendt

You know the worst: your wills are fickle,
Your values blurred, your hearts impure
And your past life a ruined church
But let your poison be your cure. ~ Louis MacNeice

I grew up with white friends, Asian friends - Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders. I had Hispanic friends, not just Mexican friends, but Guatemalan friends, Honduran friends, and we knew the difference, you know? ~ Ryan Coogler

I don't give a damn, laddie. Until the actual moment, when they cut me down, I shall still be looking to win. And the gods of war are fickle at best. ~ David Gemmell

The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place. ~ Johnny Weir

Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow. ~ Joyce Rachelle

There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through 'Gnan' (Real Knowledge) it appears to be within principle. ~ Dada Bhagwan

With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
She's constant only in inconstancy. ~ Ovid

We are some people's friends only when they are with us. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Now, the term 'friend' is a little loose. People mock the 'friending' on social media, and say, 'Gosh, no one could have 300 friends!' Well, there are all kinds of friends. Those kinds of 'friends,' and work friends, and childhood friends, and dear friends, and neighborhood friends, and we-walk-our-dogs-at-the-same-time friends, etc. ~ Gretchen Rubin

Struggling over my fickle heart, love draws it now this
way, and now hate that
but love, I think, is winning. I
will hate, if I have strength; if not, I shall love unwilling. ~ Ovid

("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole heart" - we then wonder about the wholeness of a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our wives, our fathers, our gods - they are all beyond us. ~ Tim O'Brien

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
But swift is gone whenever she veils her face. ~ Ovid

So I separated all my books into stacks: best friends, old friends, classic friends, new friends, and casual acquaintances. ~ Laura Jensen Walker

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king! ~ Walter Scott

This Force, by troth, I'll never comprehend!
It doth control and also doth obey?
And 'tis within and yet it is beyond,
'Tis both inside and yet outside one's self?
What paradox! What fickle-natur'd pow'r!
Aye: frailty, thy name
belike
is Force. ~ Ian Doescher

An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard's unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getting to their destination, and it changed its fickle little mind and began calmly telling him which way to proceed as if this had been its idea all along. ~ Neal Stephenson

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need. ~ John Henry Newman

Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week. ~ Calvin Miller

Time flies on fickle wings ~ Seneca.

We would never become friends with most if not all of the people with whom we have been friends for many years, if we had met them only a few weeks ago. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You never lose Friends.
Real ones will always stay - no matter what
and the fakes, you don't need anyways. ~ Wordions

A woman is an ever fickle and changeable thing. ~ Virgil

Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible. ~ Milan Kundera

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.) ~ Virgil

Friends

Friends will stick up for you, not put you down.
Friends like when you smile, not when you frown.
Friends treat you respectfully, not call you names.
Friends are always truthful, they don't play little head games.
If I had real friends, they would be nice.
But, the people I call friends always bring tears to my eyes. ~ Various

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions. ~ Criss Jami

How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat. ~ Sharon Kay Penman

We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet. ~ Fran Lebowitz

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way. ~ Dale Carnegie

One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

Beware leverage in all its forms. Borrowers - individual, corporate, or government - should always match fund their liabilities against the duration of their assets. Borrowers must always remember that capital markets can be extremely fickle, and that it is never safe to assume a maturing loan can be rolled over. Even if you are unleveraged, the leverage employed by others can drive dramatic price and valuation swings; sudden unavailability of leverage in the economy may trigger an economic downturn. ~ Seth Klarman

It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance. ~ Jeff Lindsay

Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. True friends help you move the bodies of those who turned out not to have been friends to begin with. ~ Jeff Mach

If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends. ~ Marilyn Manson

A fickle and changeful thing is woman ever ~ Virgil

Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

The degree of our intellectual growth is inversely proportional to the number of people with whom we are still close friends. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Growing up in Jersey City was interesting. I got to learn a lot about different cultures: I had Hindu friends, Middle Eastern friends, black friends, Spanish friends. ~ Michelle Rodriguez

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends.
Real friends are there to visit you not your house! ~ Jennifer Wilson

Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence. ~ Donald Hall