Grimes Quotes

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.

Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .’ He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. ‘They change back.

I'm not naturally manipulative.

Character is simply habit long continued.

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

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.

If someone's off their line, they're off their line.

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

I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.

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

Shrews are made, not born.

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

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him

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.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Character is inured habit.

People don't want to hang around someone that you don't know how they're going to react to anything you do or say.

It's hard to think too hard about anything Donald Trump says because, you know, he will change his mind in the next hour, if not the next day, or whatever.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits.