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Fickleness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

A man so various that he seem'd to be, Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon.— DRYDEN — Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. I. L. 545.

He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.— GOLDSMITH — Retaliation. L. 107.

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. II. L. 41.

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain? Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood- Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh, who would wish to be thy king?— SCOTT — Lady of the Lake. Canto V. St. 30.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 64. See also THOS. PERCY,

The Friar of Orders Gray. Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude?— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 57.

Formosis levitas semper amica fuit. Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.— PROPERTIUS — Elegiæ. II. 16. 26.