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Capricious Quotes

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

Virginia Woolf
Mind, Fluttering, Capricious
Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Saint Augustine
Lust, Atheism, Capricious

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

Madeleine de Scudery
Love Is, Desire, Capricious

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

Julia Quinn
Rewards, Quiet, Capricious

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Jonathan Swift
Love, Cold, Capricious

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

John Kennedy Toole
Capricious, Fortuna
John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”

It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.

Burton Malkiel
News, Investing, Capricious

April's rare capricious loveliness.

Julia Caroline Dorr
Spring, April, Capricious
Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1872). “Poems”, p.67

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

Christopher Hitchens
Evolution, Capricious, Callous
Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

"Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is."

Neil Gaiman
Capricious
"The Sandman: The Doll's House". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1989-1990.

History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it.

Mikhail Gorbachev
Writing, Capricious, Creatures

Fashion is a capricious deity.

Mary Russell Mitford
Fashion, Deities, Capricious
Mary Russell Mitford (1859). “Recollections of a literary life ... Second edition”, p.297

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

Ingmar Bergman
Doe, Atoms, Capricious
"The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography". Book by Ingmar Bergman translated by Joan Tate, 1988.

The momentum of the mind can be vexingly, involuntarily capricious.

Gregory Maguire
Mind, Momentum, Capricious

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