#caprice

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 passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#passion #life

Love is pretty much a decision anyway. Just like happiness. You can decide to either love someone or not, be happy or not. The rest is just commitment to the idea. ↗

— Caprice Crane

#heaven-albright #stupid-and-contagious #love

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

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#caprice #conditions #constant #establishment #events

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

— Pedro Almodovar

#colors #demonstrate #how #i #important

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. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dictatorship #fascism #rules #dictatorship

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

— Max Eastman

#bears #caprice #chance #classic #modern

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

— J. K. Rowling

#anyone #caprice #fates #inoculated #intelligence

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

#beautiful #caprice #explore #freedom #indulgence

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

— Roman Payne

#carpe-diem #great #learning #life #life-lessons

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#law #tyranny #love