Novelty Quotes
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
Margaret Laurence
This package was an interesting novelty, but was never going to be a big idea. It's not exactly hard to find a hot cup of coffee in America.
John Sicher
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, Novelty, novelty, novelty.
Thomas Hood
It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power.
Blaise Pascal
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers
Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility
Legal Maxim
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
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
John Lasseter
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure
Robert South
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged
William Cowper
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
Thomas Griffith
Almost every culture in the Thousand Cultures had some wisdom literature, and much of it was the same between any two cultures. . . . Cultures tend to be alike in much of what they think are the basic virtues, but one of the ones they are most alike in, though it rarely appears in their book of wisdom, is: Distrust strangers, fear foreigners, dread novelty.
John Barnes
This hunger for novelty which makes sensuous love equally changeful and rapacious, which makes us seek the same emotion in other bodies which we cast off as fast as they fall turns life into an infernal succession of disenchantments, spites and scorn; and it is chiefly that hunger for novelty which leaves us a prey to unrealizable hope and irrevocable regret. Those lovers who persist in remaining together execute themselves; the name of their common death, which at first was Absence, becomes Presence.
Henri Barbusse
