Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Hume

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.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Edward Norton

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

Andre Maurois

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Heinrich Heine

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Francois Rabelais

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

Cathleen Schine

'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.

Greg Rusedski

I thought the first set was really good, especially getting that early break. He's a very deceptive player.

Keith Brooking

He has a lot more power, deceptive power, a lot more than you see on film. He's strong, he has the speed to get outside. I think he got some tough yards inside today. That's for sure.

Arthur Conan

There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.

Arthur Doyle

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Gayle Forman

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

Edmund Mierzwinski

First of all, ... if you just opt out, you're protecting your information from being shared with telemarketers who use deceptive scripts to trick you into ordering junky products. If this decision is upheld, you're also protecting your Social Security number from being shared with information brokers and that might protect you from identity theft and stalking.

John Richter

This was essentially an organization that was willing to be a one-stop-shop for illegal goods. We seized more than $4 million of highly deceptive currency. It's the largest seizure of its kind.

Gary Ruskin

It's deceptive because people think they're talking to a regular person when they're really talking to a shill, ... That's the whole point, that shills have to disclose that they're shills.

Georges Bataille

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Sandra Moore

She is pretty healthy for her age; she doesn't have anything major. She uses a walker by herself. She reads the paper from her hometown. She can really be a delightful person to be around.

Pat Conroy

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

Thomas Cole

Nature has spread for us a rich and delightful banquet. Shall we turn from it? ... We are still in Eden.

Richard Thomas

I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.

Barry Corbin

Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.

Charles Spurgeon

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Oscar Wilde

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.