A Quote by Virgil

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

Virgil

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Always Fickle Object Woman

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Virgil
Roman - Poet
70 BC - 19 BC

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

Ovid

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

Virgil

Semper Dowland semper dolens.

John Dowland

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

Francis I

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

Juvenal

I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

Carine Roitfeld

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

Juvenal

An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in love; a false woman is one who is already in love with another person; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves nor whether she loves or not; and the indifferent woman, one who does not love at all.

Jean de la Bruyere

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king!

Walter Scott

Mercenaries, to me, were always able to switch sides because they're motivated by cash. Deadpool has always been a shifty bastard.

Rob Liefeld

An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]

Socrates

A fickle and changeful thing is a woman ever.

Virgil

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

Tobsha Learner

Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.