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Fickle Quotes

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.13

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4483, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.115, Library of America

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

Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.337, Duke University Press

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1939, Delphi Classics

O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.

1595 Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 3, sc.5, l.60.