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Tag Name "Capricious" (52)

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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
Alexandre Dumas
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Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.
Julia Quinn
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Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps its own counsel, so much the better to profoundly shock by its actions.
Kenneth Turan
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Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade.
Leonard Read
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Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Madeleine de Scudery
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Fashion is a capricious deity.
Mary Russell Mitford
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Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane.
Alexander Pushkin
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We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.
Max Black
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Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.
Anatole France
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Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.
Nick Harkaway
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Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
Benjamin Disraeli
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The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she drives men crazy.
Paulo Coelho
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The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
Christopher Hitchens
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God is not blind neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
R. C. Sproul
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Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people's needs strike us as capricious indulgences.
Daphne Merkin
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I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.
Richard Dawkins
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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
Fanny Burney
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I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.
Sarah Fielding
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They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.
George Eliot
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The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.
Susan Sontag
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Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
George Ryan
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The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.
Virginia Woolf
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.
Honore de Balzac
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The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
Waverley Root
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