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  • Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

    Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.111, Grove Press
  • 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.

    Mother   Home   Boys  
    Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.40, Diversion Books
  • Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

  • In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

    Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.154
  • The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.

  • The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

    Children   Mean   Men  
    Oscar Wilde (1988). “The complete plays”, Methuen Drama
  • As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.

    Writing   Son   Sacrifice  
    Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.32
  • The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

    Political   Gold   Merit  
  • Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

    David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.467
  • If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

  • 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.

    Luck   Caprice   Form  
    Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.475, Everyman's Library
  • Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.

    Lust   Vices   Wrecks  
  • Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

    Lasts   Facts   Lifetime  
    Source: wordswithoutborders.org
  • Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.

  • ... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

    Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton
  • Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.

    Hero   Pride   Reflection  
    Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics
  • The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.

    Events   Caprice   Flux  
    Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик
  • But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.

    Self   Hobbies   Peculiar  
    Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.47
  • Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.

    "Asphyxiating Culture". Book by Jean Dubuffet, 1968.
  • Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?

    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 149, 1895.
  • Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What did I say! It is not a Science for a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged.

  • Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

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

    Stendhal (2015). “Amarance”, p.73, Stendhal
  • The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

    The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891)
  • A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

    Lust   Lasts   Peppers  
  • Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

    Winston Churchill (2013). “London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March”, p.152, Courier Corporation
  • The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

    Law   Tyrants   Sovereign  
    Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.2014, e-artnow
  • That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

    God   Religious   Hands  
    Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社
  • Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a mechanical universe: if that which is wound up must run down, what destiny is there in that? Destiny is not necessitarianism, and it is not caprice: it is something essentially meaningful. Each man has his destiny, though some men are undoubtedly "men of destiny" in a sense in which most men are not.

  • They whose activity of imagination is often shifting the scenes of expectation, are frequently subject to such sallies of caprice as make all their actions fortuitous, destroy the value of their friendship, obstruct the efficacy of their virtues, and set them below the meanest of those who persist in their resolutions, execute what they design, and perform what they have promised.

    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.343
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