Inconstancy

Inconstancy is the lack of constancy, a lack of consistency in thought, emotion or action.

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 * O Fortuna, velut luna statu variabilis.
 * O how Fortune, inopportune, Apes the moon's inconstancy.
 * Carmina Burana, No. 17, "O Fortuna", line 1; translation by David Parlett..


 * 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, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto II, Stanza 209.


 * All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
 * James Joyce, letter to Augusta Gregory (1902-11-22), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, ISBN 0-195-03381-7 ] (p. 107).


 * Notre raison est toujours déçue par l'inconstance des apparences.
 * Our reason is always disappointed by the inconsistency of appearances.
 * Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1669), Section II The Misery of Man without God (60-183).


 * They are not constant but are changing still.
 * William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act II, scene 5, line 30.


 * O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
 * William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 2, line 109.


 * 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 wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
 * William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI (1609).


 * 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 (1590s), Act II, scene 4, line 193.


 * 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, I Loved a Lass; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 390.