Fickle Quotes

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

Experience, Live, Long

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hesitation, Following, Folk

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
Marilyn Monroe

Both, Fame, Drawbacks

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

May, Greedy, General

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson

Food, Fame, Plate

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
Mason Cooley

Bad, Few, Faithful

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Emma Goldman

Human, Become, While

The passion for money is never fickle.
Mason Cooley

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks

Wanted, Next, Victim

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
Timothy Zahn

Change, Rock, Sense

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler

Student, Mistress, Lover

I know people are fickle.
William Hague

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
Johnny Vegas

Chance, Quite, Audiences

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
Julie Burchill

Friendship, Attitude, Husband

It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.
Jeffrey Kluger

Hope, Business, Often

The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
Lance Bass

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
Alex Kapranos

Music, Fashion, Musical

All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
Nancy Grace

Death, Getting, Worth

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.
Tommy Shaw

Success, Creativity, Gift

As the world's getting filled with temptations, we're getting a bit frivolous and a bit fickle.
Freida Pinto

Getting, Bit, Filled

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.
Nicholson Baker

Book, Put, Start

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
Tom Brokaw

Good, Business, Tv

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
Roberta Flack

Good, Bad, Country

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.
Charlie Hunter

Music, Play, Industry

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
Francis I

Woman, Her, Foolish

Rock fans are pretty fickle, too, you know.
Bubba Sparxxx

Rock, Pretty, Fans

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.
Ali Smith

Gay, Fashion, Published

I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
Fred Savage

Life, Education, Family

Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
Matthew Lawrence

Education, End, Career

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