FICKLENESS

Related Subjects: Chance, Change, Constancy, Coquetry, Fidelity, Resolution, Variety

1. Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

2. I'm going away today with a handsomer man than you.—WILL CARLETON, Gone With a Handsomer Man
   

3. How happy could I be with either,
   Were t'other dear charmer away!—JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
   

4. I know I am but summer to your heart,
   And not the full four seasons of the year.—EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Two Seasons
   

5. And if I loved you Wednesday,
   Well, what is that to you?
   I do not love you Thursday—
   So much is true.—EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Thursday
   

6. 'Tis sweet to think, that, where'er we rove,
   We are sure to find something blissful and dear;
   And that when we're far from the lips we love,
   We've but to make love to the lips we are near.—THOMAS MOORE, 'Tis Sweet to Think
   

7. My merry, merry merry roundelay
   Concludes with Cupid's curse;
   They that do change old love for new,
   Pray gods, they change for worse!—GEORGE PEELE, Cupid's Curse
   

8. The fickleness of women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.—BERNARD SHAW, The Philanderer

9. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.—OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray