Caprice
An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
See Capriccio.
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Caprice Quotations
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
J. K. Rowling
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
Stendhal
I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice.
Pedro Almodovar
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman
Caprice Translations
caprice in Dutch is nuk, gril, bevlieging, bui, kuur
caprice in Finnish is oikku
caprice in French is caprice
caprice in German is Laune
caprice in Italian is capriccio
caprice in Latin is libido
caprice in Norwegian is lune
caprice in Spanish is capricho
caprice in Swedish is nyck
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