Novelty Quotes

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Happiness ain’t a thing in itself – it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant… And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain’t happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

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.