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Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,-
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. ~ William Shakespeare
Inconstancy quotes by William Shakespeare
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Inconstancy quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There is nothing in England more constant than the inconstancy of dress. ~ Peter Ackroyd
Inconstancy quotes by Peter Ackroyd
Boxer, feeling that his attentions were due to the family in general, and must be impartially distributed, dashed in and out with bewildering inconstancy; now, describing a circle of short barks round the horse, where he was being rubbed down at the stable-door; now feigning to make savage rushes at his mistress, and facetiously bringing himself to sudden stops; now, eliciting a shriek from Tilly Slowboy, in the low nursing-chair near the fire, by the unexpected application of his moist nose to her countenance; now, exhibiting an obtrusive interest in the baby; now, going round and round upon the hearth, and lying down as if he had established himself for the night; now, getting up again, and taking that nothing of a fag-end of a tail of his, out into the weather, as if he had just remembered an appointment, and was off, at a round trot, to keep it. ~ Charles Dickens
Inconstancy quotes by Charles Dickens
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved
sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest
so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Inconstancy quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others. ~ Michel De Montaigne
Inconstancy quotes by Michel De Montaigne
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. ~ Blaise Pascal
Inconstancy quotes by Blaise Pascal
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety. ~ Blaise Pascal
Inconstancy quotes by Blaise Pascal
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away. ~ Tony Wilson
Inconstancy quotes by Tony Wilson
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety. ~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Inconstancy quotes by Mary Wortley Montagu
It's precarious to hang onto the veracity of memory because its edges are smoothed by the river of time. ~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Inconstancy quotes by Khang Kijarro Nguyen
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inconstancy quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place. ~ Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury
Inconstancy quotes by Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury
The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have
produced in the human heart - an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, infidelity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship. The humans live in time, and experience reality successively. To experience much of it,
therefore, they must experience many different things; in other words, they must experience change. And since they need change, the Enemy (being a hedonist at heart) has made change pleasurable to them, just as He has made eating pleasurable. But since He does not wish them to make change, any more than eating, an end in itself, He has balanced the love of change in them by a love of permanence. He has contrived to gratify both tastes together on the very
world He has made, by that union of change and permanence which we call rhythm. He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme. He gives them in His Church a spiritual ear; they change from
a fast to a feast, but it is the same feast as before. ~ The Screwtape Letters, C.S.Lewis
Inconstancy quotes by The Screwtape Letters, C.S.Lewis
I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo! ~ George Wither
Inconstancy quotes by George Wither
If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy. ~ Jack Nicklaus
Inconstancy quotes by Jack Nicklaus
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things. ~ James C. Collins
Inconstancy quotes by James C. Collins
The 'violent wrenching' of the world into constant movements has remained constant. Indeed, the only constancy of the past several decades has been change itself, that is, constant inconstancy. The paradox of this syndrome causes those who suffer from it to hope that change - or the right kind of change - will eventually put an end to the dread it induces through its endless turnover of the new. This is strange hope to hold to, yet it may be the only one available at a time when the unworlding of the world seems a fait accompli. ~ Robert Pogue Harrison
Inconstancy quotes by Robert Pogue Harrison
We say
This changes and that changes. Thus the constant
Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths
Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause
In a universe of inconstancy. ~ Wallace Stevens
Inconstancy quotes by Wallace Stevens
things: and the vanity of praise, and the inconstancy ~ Marcus Aurelius
Inconstancy quotes by Marcus Aurelius
We love a saint, though he has many personal failings. There is no perfection here. In some, rash anger prevails; in some, inconstancy; in some, too much love of the world. A saint in this life is like gold in the ore, much dross of infirmity cleaves to him, yet we love him for the grace that is in him. A saint is like a fair face with a scar: we love the beautiful face of holiness, though there be a scar in it. The best emerald has its blemishes, the brightest stars their twinklings, and the best of the saints have their failings. You that cannot love another because of his infirmities, how would you have God love you? ~ Thomas Watson
Inconstancy quotes by Thomas Watson
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
Inconstancy quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Then talk not of inconstancy,
False hearts, and broken vows;
If I, by miracle, can be
This live-long minute true to thee,
'Tis all that Heav'n allows. ~ John Wilmot
Inconstancy quotes by John Wilmot
We think of ourselves as failures, rather than renounce our belief in the possibility of perfection. We hang on to the hope of eternal love by denying even its temporary validity. It´s less painful to think 'I'm shallow', 'She's self centred', 'We couldn't communicate', 'It was all just physical', than to accept the simple fact that love is a passing sensation, for reasons beyond our control and even beyond our personalities. But who can reassure himself with his own rationalizations? No argument can fill the void of a dead feeling -- that reminder of the ultimate void, our final inconstancy. We're untrue even to life. ~ Stephen Vizinczey
Inconstancy quotes by Stephen Vizinczey
Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind," he said, "That from the nunnery, Of they chaste breast and quiet mind."
I looked up at him, and said the next line, "To war and arms I fly."
"True, a new mistress now I chase," he said.
"The first foe in the field," I said, and let him draw me closer.
"And with a stronger faith embrace," he said.
"A sword, a horse, a shield." And the last word was whispered against his chest, still looking up into those eyes, searching his face.
"Yet this inconstancy is such, As thou too shalt adore," he whispered against my hair.
I finished the poem with my face pressed against his chest, listening to the beat of his heart, that truly beat with my blood. "I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Inconstancy quotes by Laurell K. Hamilton
Our lives are written in disappearing ink. ~ Michelle Cliff
Inconstancy quotes by Michelle Cliff
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. ~ Jonathan Swift
Inconstancy quotes by Jonathan Swift
How contemptible! Of all things in the world inconstancy is my aversion. Let ~ Jane Austen
Inconstancy quotes by Jane Austen
Do you think," said Candide, "that mankind always massacred one another as they do now? Were they always guilty of lies, fraud, treachery, ingratitude, inconstancy, envy, ambition, and cruelty? Were they always thieves, fools, cowards, gluttons, drunkards, misers, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, and hypocrites?" "Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always been accustomed to eat pigeons when they came in their way?" "Doubtless," said Candide. "Well then," replied Martin, "if hawks have always had the same nature, why should you pretend that mankind change theirs? ~ Voltaire
Inconstancy quotes by Voltaire
Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy. ~ Richard Barnfield
Inconstancy quotes by Richard Barnfield
[O]ur needs were quite different; what grips me need hardly touch you at all, and vice versa; what is innocence in you may be guilt in me, and vice versa; what has no consequences for you may be the last nail in my coffin. ~ Franz Kafka
Inconstancy quotes by Franz Kafka
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that. ~ Simon Critchley
Inconstancy quotes by Simon Critchley
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
Inconstancy quotes by Ovid
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Inconstancy quotes by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
All psychologists who have studied the intelligence of women, as well as poets and novelists, recognize today that they represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and that they are closer to children and savages than to an adult, civilized man. They excel in fickleness, inconstancy, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason. ~ Gustave Le Bon
Inconstancy quotes by Gustave Le Bon
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. ~ James Joyce
Inconstancy quotes by James Joyce
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
Inconstancy quotes by Miguel De Cervantes
Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods. ~ Thomas Otway
Inconstancy quotes by Thomas Otway
We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base ~ Michel De Montaigne
Inconstancy quotes by Michel De Montaigne
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ~ Blaise Pascal
Inconstancy quotes by Blaise Pascal
Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing, ~ William Wilberforce
Inconstancy quotes by William Wilberforce
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon. ~ Deepak Chopra
Inconstancy quotes by Deepak Chopra
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