Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.

~ Christine De Pizan

Christine De Pizan Books Clichés Deceit Defenselessness Double Standards Fickleness Gender Hypocrisy Inequality Injustice Men Misogyny Misrepresentation Morality One Sidedness Perception Prejudice Received Opinion Seduction Slander Social Norms Stereotypes Suppression Unfairness Women

Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Back Stabbing Backbiting Bad Friends Bad People Behind Betrayal Confidant Deadly Dearest Disloyalty Distrust Double Dealing Fake Friends Falseness Fickleness Friend Friends Friendship Fuck Up Hurt Infidelity Suspicion Two Timing Unfaithfulness Unfriendliness Wolves

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?''A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell Consolation Fickleness Husbands Men

Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.

~ Kelley Armstrong

Kelley Armstrong Fickleness Inconstancy Infidelity Men

Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

~ William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare Fickleness Tragedy