1.
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
Stendhal
3.
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain;
but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man
Honore de Balzac
4.
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
J. K. Rowling
5.
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
Emile M. Cioran
7.
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
9.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
12.
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.
Charlotte Bronte
13.
Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.
C. A. Bartol
14.
A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.
Jerry A. Coyne
16.
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.
John Bowring
19.
No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
Charles Lamb
20.
Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her.
Richard Bacon