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Definition of Fickle
Fickle

Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel.

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Fickle Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fickle Translations

fickle in Latin is inconstans
fickle in Norwegian is ustadig


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