Jane Austen
Novelist
"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."
Whim quotes
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."
"Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it."
"All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God."
"Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims."
"The whims of youth break all the rules."
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