inconstancy quotes

Since Man with that inconstancy was born, To love the absent, and the present scorn. Why do we deck, why do we dress For such a short-liv'd happiness?

- Brendan Francis Behan
  Lycidus,'To Alexis in  Answer to his Poem against Fruition,' stanza 3.

Pour les hommes, l'infide  lite   n'est pas l'inconstance. For men, infidelity is not inconstancy.

- Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos
  Les Liaisons dangereuses, letter134.

Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie  tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, no.127 (translated byA Krailsheimer).

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

-Jonathan Swift
  A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind.