Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

You change your mind Like a girl changes clothes

... the populace is variable and inconstant, so that, if a reputation be not kept up, it quickly withers away.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

You never know with me. I change my mind like I change my job. And I do that very often.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Womankind Is ever a fickle and a changeful thing.

People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change.

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

I know people are fickle.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

A man of extreme fickleness of principle and full of childish vanity

His opinions are like water in the bottom of a canoe, going from side to side.

I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.