Inconstancy Quotes

• Inconstancy is the child of satiety.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Children, Satiety

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• Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Change, People, Rolling Along

  "Message in a Bottle". Book by Nicholas Sparks, April 1, 1998.

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• Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.91

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• There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Literature, World, Constant

  'A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind' (1709)

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• If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Years, I Have Learned

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• All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

  James Joyce

  Faith, Light, Soul

  May Antoine Maalouf, James Joyce, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1989). “James Joyce and the Romantic Temper: A Study of the Thematic Function of Byron and Shelley in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”

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• Our lives are written in disappearing ink.

  Michelle Cliff

  Life, Ink, Disappear

  Michelle Cliff (1998). “The Store of a Million Items: Stories”, Mariner Books

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• No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Consistency, Opinion, Wells

  "Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book XVI, Chapter 7), 68-43 BC.

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• For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Years, People, Quality

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• It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.

  Boethius

  Essence, Tragedy, Passing Away

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• The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Vanity, Causes

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.47, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Understanding, Soul

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• O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Perfect

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 5, sc. 4, l. 110

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• I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Love, Broken Heart, Infidelity

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• Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.

  William Shakespeare

  Lost Love, Men, Sea

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]

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• Such an act
  That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
  Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
  From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
  And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
  As false as dicers' oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Hypocrite, Rose, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  War, Literature, Conflict

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Quixote de la Mancha (don, fict.name.) (1847). “The history of don Quixote de la Mancha. From the Span. To which is prefixed a sketch of the life and writings of the author. Select libr. ed”, p.27

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• Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blithe, Sigh

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [65]

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• The dream on the pillow,
  That flits with the day,
  The leaf of the willow
  A breath wears away;
  The dust on the blossom,
  The spray on the sea;
  Ay,--ask thine own bosom--
  Are emblems of thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dream, Dust, Sea

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• Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Mistress, Littles

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• Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Self, Satisfaction

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• I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that.

  Simon Critchley

  Boredom, Anxiety, Phrases

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• Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place.

  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

  Infidelity, Body, Faces

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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• Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Remembrance, Nails

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 2, sc. 4, l. 194

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