Inconstant

Mark Twain and Will Rogers lived off the foibles of Congressmen who they described as inconstant, untrustworthy, mendacious, venal, etc, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have heard him called inconstant of purpose — when he deserted, for the sake of love, the hope of sovereignty, and when he abdicated the protectorship of England, men blamed his infirmity of purpose. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I know, at last, what the poet meant by that expression, though the word inconstant strikes me as hardly forcible enough. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

I have heard him called inconstant of purpose -- when he deserted, for the sake of love, the hope of sovereignty, and when he abdicated the protectorship of England, men blamed his infirmity of purpose. ❋ Unknown (1826)

He was therefore inconstant, which is the real sin against marriage. ❋ Elizabeth Bibesco (1921)

They are always called inconstant: but nothing in them changes. ❋ Romain Rolland (1905)

As well might the pole star be called inconstant because it is sometimes to the east and sometimes to the west of the pointers. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

He was called inconstant, because the relative position in which he stood to the contending factions was perpetually varying. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)

The manners of those who live in temperate climates are "inconstant", since "the climate has not a quality determinate enough to fix them" (SL 14.2). ❋ Bok, Hilary (2003)

The only other "inconstant" person in the play (Sir Thurio) is inconstant from that water-like quality in the mind that floods with the full moon, and ebbs like a neap soon after. ❋ John Masefield (1922)

How inconstant are your feelings! but a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again harden yourself to my complaints? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Did you mean chameleon, a changeable or inconstant person? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Skeeter's boyfriend is an inconstant cipher, and her book editor in New York is a fleeting caricature of a Jewish liberal, while the caricatures of Hilly's Junior League cohorts are as vivid as they are unrestrained. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

I cherished hope, it is true; but it vanished, when I beheld my person reflected in water, or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Suddenly, things that were supposed to be permanent felt inconstant. ❋ Danny Goodman (2011)

All her other enthusiasms were as inconstant as her friendships. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

Executive theorists in the United States often pose the choice that way — steady, independent executive leadership or feckless, inconstant pursuit of what Hamilton called “the temporary delusion” of public opinion. ❋ Unknown (2009)