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Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy. - Joseph Addison I hate inconstancy--I loathe, detest, Abhor, condemn, abjure the mortal made Of such quicksilver clay that in his breast No permanent foundation can be laid. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto II, st. 209) We pardon infidelities, but we do not forget them. - Madame Lafayette, Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee. - Letitia Elizabeth Landon (Mrs. George MacLean) Inconstancy is the child of satiety. - Ninon de L'Enclos (real name Anne L'Enclos) Clocks will go as they are set; but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. - Thomas Otway Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) Inconstancy is but a name, To fright poor lovers from a better choice. - Joseph Rutter How long must women wish in vain A constant love to find? No art can fickle man retain, Or fix a roving mind. Yet fondly we ourselves deceive, And empty hopes pursue; Though false to others, we believe They will to us prove true. - Thomas Shadwell Inconstancy falls off ere it begins. - William Shakespeare Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten. - William Shakespeare Such an act, that blurs the grace and blush of modesty; calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love, and sets a blister there. - William Shakespeare They are not constant, but are changing still. - William Shakespeare For even to vice They are not constant, but are changing still One vice but of a minute old for one Not half so old as that. - William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (Posthumus at II, v) O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii) Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments; love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI Even as one heat another heat expels, Or as one nail by strength drives out another, So the remembrance of my former love Is by a newer object quite forgotten. - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at II, iv) Trust not the treason of those smiling looks, Until ye have their guileful trains well tried; For they are like but unto golden hooks, That from the foolish fish their baits do hide: So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide Unto her love, and tempt to their decay; Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride, And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. - Edmund Spenser I loved a lass, a fair one, As fair as e'er was seen; She was indeed a rare one, Another Sheba queen: But, fool as then I was, I thought she loved me too: But now, alas! she's left me, Falero, lero, loo! - George Wither (Whyther or Withers), I Loved a Lass
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