Charm Quote by Blaise Pascal

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

— Honore de Balzac

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

— Thomas Carlyle

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There…

— Lauren Beukes

“One of the gifts that comes with age is an appreciation for some of the more simple, more commonplace things that seem mundane earlier…

— Priscilla Shirer

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help…

— Mary Augusta Ward

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity…

— Charles Mackay

Novelty in all things is charming.

— Ovid

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and…

— Ellen Glasgow

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

— Phaedrus

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

— Horace Greeley

“True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time.”

— Muriel Barbery