NOVELTY

Related Subjects: Change, Foreigners, Originality, Variety

1. There is no new thing under the sun.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:9
   

2. Is there anything whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already of old time, which was before us.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:10
   

3. Every new movement or manifestation of human activity, when unfamiliar to people's minds, is sure to be misrepresented and misunderstood.—EDWARD CARPENTER, The Drama of Love and Death
   

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

5. Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.—DAVID HUME
   

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

7. Novelty always appears handsome.—Proverb
   

8. 'Tis novelty that sets people a-gaping.—Proverb
   

9. There is nothing left remarkable
   Beneath the visiting moon.—SHAKESPEARE,
   Antony and Cleopatra

10. Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. The most valuable things, if they have for a long while appeared among us, do not make any impression as they are good, but give us a distaste as they are old. But when the influence of this fantastical humor is over, the same men or things will come to be admired again, by a happy return of our good taste.—THACKERAY