#caprice

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

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

— Rachilde

#caprice #love #lust #passion #love

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

— Voltaire

#caprice #his #knows #laws #sovereign

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of the formation of a language, seeking the hidden reason of all its apparent caprices, we do not reach that end, for grammar is not literature… When we come to literature, we find that, though it conforms to the rules of grammar, it is yet a thing of joy; it is freedom itself. The beauty of a poem is bound by strict laws, yet it transcends them. The laws are its wings. They do not keep it weighed down. They carry it to freedom. Its form is in law, but its spirit is in beauty. Law is the first step toward freedom, and beauty is the complete liberation which stands on the pedestal of law. Beauty harmonizes in itself the limit and the beyond – the law and the liberty. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#caprice #first-step #freedom #grammar #hidden-reason

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

— Stendhal

#caprice #had #how #imitate #marvellous