Human nature craves novelty. [ Pliny ]

Human nature is fond of novelty. [ Pliny the Elder ]

Newness hath an evanescent beauty. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Change, change, - we all covet change. [ Chamfort ]

Novelty is the storehouse of pleasure. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Novelties please less than they impress. [ Dickens ]

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. [ South ]

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive. [ Balzac ]

It is novelty that sets the people a gaping. [ Proverb ]

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous.
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. [ South ]

All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. [ Johnson ]

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. [ Beaconsfield ]

Novelty is the foundation of the love of knowledge. [ Sydney Smith ]

And I will hold your mind captive with sweet novelty. [ Ovid ]

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand. [ Thackeray ]

Antiquity cannot privilege an error, nor novelty prejudice a truth. [ Proverb ]

It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. [ Pascal ]

The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty. On the contraiy, it strikes us more the more we are familiar with it. [ Goethe ]

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. [ Goethe ]

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call of novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another. [ Samuel Johnson ]

The three foundations of thought: Perspicuity, amplitude and justness. The three ornaments of thought: Clearness, correctness and novelty. [ Catherall ]

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. [ Johnson ]

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. [ Johnson ]

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. [ Carlyle ]

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as commonsense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. [ Hume ]

When at last the angels come to convey your departing spirit to Abraham's bosom, depend upon it, however dazzling in their newness they may be to you. you will find that your history is no novelty, and you yourself no stranger to them. [ James Hamilton ]

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash - for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present. [ Colton ]