A Quote by Oscar Wilde

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde

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Between Caprice Difference Lasts Lifelong Little Longer Only Only Difference Passion

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

Jose Rizal

What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather.

Herman Melville

Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure.

Edward Gibbon

Idleness induces caprice.

James Russell Lowell

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

Edith Wharton

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.

William Hazlitt

Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

Jean de la Bruyere

Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

C. A. Bartol

Art is life, plus caprice.

William Ernest Hocking

Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

Pico Iyer

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

Charles Lamb

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

Jean de la Bruyere

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.