Stendhal
Novelist
"She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?"
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Caprice
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Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man"
J. K. Rowling
Novelist, Screenwriter
"Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates."
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"... caprice is as ruinous as routine."
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"The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune."
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"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."
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"A woman's fitness comes by fits."
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"Caprice is half man. There is something manly about her."
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"Idleness induces caprice."
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