Caprice Quotes

Caprice Quote of the day

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.

Art is life, plus caprice.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her.

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.

A woman's fitness comes by fits.

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own; when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone.

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

Idleness induces caprice.

It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise?

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.