Caprice Quotes

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

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

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

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.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

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

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

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

Art is life, plus caprice.

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

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

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

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.

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

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

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.

Idleness induces caprice.

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