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Quotes about Novelty


The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

William Cowper

What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!

Blaise Pascal

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - You've Had Your Time, 1990.

Anthony Burgess

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Thomas Carlyle

There is no whaler and no whale biologist, no matter how experienced, who is so jaded that his heart does not race at the sight of a blue whale. •Dale Rice Nothing excites jaded grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty •Dominic Lawson I used to be a hopeless romantic—I fell in love with everyone I went out with. Now I'm a little more . . . jaded •Source Unknown People say the word 'naive' as if it were a bad thing. Frankly, I believe that being naive, like a child, is being innocent. Being innocent is happiness. Once innocence is lost there is no turning back, we have now become cynical and jaded adults •Source Unknown We'll have to change our jaded ways, but I've loved these days. •Billy Joel ...time misspent and faculties mis-employed, and senses jaded by labor, or impaired by excess, cannot be recalled any more than that freshness of the heart, before it has become aware of the deceits of others, and of its own. •John Randolph I'm not jaded but I'm not controlled by my emotions. It's not that I'm emotionless, I just have the ability not to be controlled by things like love and hate. •Marilyn Manson If I don't make it know that, I've loved you all along. Just like sunny days that, we didn't know because we're all dumb and jaded , and I pray to God I figure out whats wrong.

Dale Rice

A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art.

Aristotle

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Edmund Burke

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

Thomas Griffith

There's an innocence that has kind of gone away. Umm . . . the novelty factor hasn't been there for a while.

Charlie Sheen

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

Robert South

In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.

Robert Maud

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Edmund Burke

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.

Blaise Pascal

The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

William Cowper

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Thomas Carlyle

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for himself, not for another.

Thomas Carlyle

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Maria De Beausacq

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

William Cowper

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Samuel Johnson

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