Novelty Quotes

• I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

  David Hobson

  Patience, Eye, Garden

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• Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

  Andre Gide

  Unique, Joy, Preparation

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• Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mind, Charm

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• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Unique, Essence

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1961). “On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

  Joseph Addison

  Entertainment, Usual, Ordinary

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.474

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• For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Eye, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2008). “A Scientific Education”, p.37, Lulu.com

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• We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Beautiful, Surprise

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Scandal, Charm

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Ideas, Attention, May

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• All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Wonder, Effects

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• Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

  Abraham Maslow

  Confidence, Fear, Creativity

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

  Heinrich Heine

  Newness

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• A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

  Edward Norton

  "'Fight Club' reunion - Edward Norton wants to reunite on screen with Brad Pitt", www.irishcentral.com. April 18, 2011.

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• An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

  Robert Bresson

  Old Things, Surround, Ifs

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.27, New York Review of Books

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• We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

  Mark Twain

  Garden, Natural, Interest

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.208, Courier Corporation

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• The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Powerful, Writing, Bad Ass

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• Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

  Baltasar Gracian

  People, Expectations, Each Day

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• The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stars, Lying, Moving

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers

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• There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.

  Thomas Hood

  Three, Clamor, Sooner Or Later

  "The Works of Thomas Hood: Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All the Original Illustrations".

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• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

  Anthony Burgess

  Fashion, Men, Meat

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Insightful, Merit

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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• And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.
  [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

  Ovid

  Sweet, Mind, Capture

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• How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new--
  Important matter yet attractive too?
  [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu
  Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Important, Mit, Matter

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• Being a novelty had its advantages.

  Jessica Savitch

  Literature, Advantage

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• To the old, the new is usually bad news.

  Eric Hoffer

  News, Bad News

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