Quotes of: Caprice Keyword

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde

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

Stendhal

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passi...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Pico Iyer

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

Pedro Almodovar

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

Voltaire

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Hermann Ebbinghaus

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

Max Eastman

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

Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel

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

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.

John Lahr

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

Rooftop Soliloquy

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.

Emil Cioran

I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.

Isaiah Washington

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is inco...

Joyce Carol Oates

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Marquis de Sade

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

Richard Halliburton

The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall