Variety, that is my motto. [ La Fontaine ]
Diversity, that is my motto. [ La Fontaine ]
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. [ Addison ]
Variety is the mother of enjoyment [ Disraeli ]
Variety is the very spice of life. [ Cowper ]
Ladies like variegated tulips show. [ Pope ]
Even pleasure cloys without variety. [ Ovid ]
Variety is the condition of harmony. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Whatever is natural admits of variety. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. [ William Shakespeare ]
The most universal quality is diversity. [ Montaigne ]
Tired of the last, and eager of the new. [ Prior ]
There is a variety in the tempers of good men. [ Atterbury ]
That divine gift which makes a woman charming. [ Beaconsfield ]
Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. [ South ]
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. [ Mendelssohn ]
That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where hourly I converse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, I confer
With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels;
Calling their victories, if unjustly got,
Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy,
Deface their ill-placed statues. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. [ Bacon ]
There is a grace in wild variety surpassing rule and order. [ William Mason ]
Variety alone gives joy; the sweetest meats the soonest cloy. [ Prior ]
All sorts are here that all the earth yields, variety without end. [ Milton ]
Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. [ Waller ]
Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food. [ Ruskin ]
It takes identity of sentiment, and variety of opinion, to make a dialogue. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]
Where order in variety we see; and where, though all things differ, all agree. [ Pope ]
For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [ Jean Paul Richter ]
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character. [ Lavater ]
That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less. [ Pope ]
I take it to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. [ Terence ]
There is no arena is which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation. [ Pascal ]
The history of the thoughts of men, curious on account of their infinite variety, is also sometimes instructive. [ Fontanelle ]
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of food, variety supplies both with fresh appetite. [ Quintilian ]
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth. [ Seneca ]
Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food. [ Fielding ]
That mere will and industry can enable any man to accomplish anything is a belief common enough amongst imperfectly educated man. But no one of really cultivated intellect denies the variety of natural endowments. [ Hamerton ]
Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety, - old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastical, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, - one in all, all in one. [ Marston ]
Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama. [ Hume ]
It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion. [ Thomas Paine ]
Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty. [ Whittier ]
If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]
As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite - variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite - energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not. [ Ruskin ]
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. [ Ruskin ]
It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]
It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. [ Novalis ]
You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]