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Novelty Quotes by Mark Twain
- We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
- It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is…
- 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…
- We must annex those people. We can afflict them with our wise and beneficent government. We can introduce the novelty of thieves, all the way…
More Novelty Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly,… — Christian Bale
- The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
- An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. — Pope Benedict XVI
- Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. — Jean de la Bruyere
- Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. — Anthony Burgess
- The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. — Thomas Carlyle
- I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect. — Nick Cave
- I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them. — Dick Clark
- Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to… — Stanley Morison
- Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when… — Jim Cymbala
- Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the… — Lewis Mumford