| | |

Novelty quotes

edits filters

“New friends . . . can often have a better time together than old friends.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“The sun is new again, all day” Heraclitus, On Nature

“Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...” Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

“it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.” Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days

“Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution, than for counsel; and fitter for new projects, than for settled business.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History

“Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“You hate to tell new stuff to somebody around a hundred years old. They don't like to hear it.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation.” Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Related topics

age travel originality youth love fear friendship reality passion virtue past judgement history business opinion sincerity sun present vice morning

Related authors

Thomas Carlyle (2)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1)
John Steinbeck (1)
Paulo Coelho (1)
Ray Bradbury (1)
J. D. Salinger (1)
Abraham Lincoln (1)
Heraclitus (1)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1)
Jules Verne (1)
Francis Bacon (1)
Henry Adams (1)
Gustave Flaubert (1)

Related sources

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History (2)
Tender Is the Night (1)
East of Eden (1)
State of the Union Address (1)
The Catcher in the Rye (1)
The Essays of Francis Bacon (1)
On Nature (1)
Fahrenheit 451 (1)
The Education of Henry Adams (1)
Madame Bovary (1)
A Study in Scarlet (1)
Around the World in 80 Days (1)
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1)