Quotes About Curiosity

She came out here...turned this way, must have trod on these stones often. Let me follow in her steps.

He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M'Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within—or sometimes only maim him and distort him!

I don't want to know anything. I am not curious!

what wind blows you here? nit an ill wind, I hope

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

When he grew tall enough to peep through the keyhole of the great lock of the main door, he had divers times set down his father's dinner, or supper, to get on as it might on the outer side thereof, while he stood taking cold in one eye by dint of peeping at her through that airy perspective.

Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.

Why, my girl,' cried Mr Meagles, more breathless than before, 'how did you come over?

They passed very quietly along the yard; for no one was there, though many heads were stealthily peeping from the windows.

Un fapt curios, vrednic s? meditezi asupr?-i, e acela c? fiecare f?ptur? omeneasc? a fost astfel alc?tuit? încât s? prezinte o tain? adânc? ?i un mister pentru orice alt? f?ptur?.

It is the same with all these new countries and wonderful sights. They are very beautiful, and they astonish me, but I am not collected enough—not familiar enough with myself, if you can quite understand what I mean—to have all the pleasure in them that I might have. What I knew before them, blends with them, too, so curiously.

We strolled a long way, and loaded ourselves with things that we thought curious, and put some stranded starfish carefully back into the water—I hardly know enough of the race at this moment to be quite certain whether they had reason to feel obliged to us for doing so, or the reverse—and then made our way home to Mr. Peggotty's dwelling.

Her first proceeding there was to unlock a tall press, bring out several bottles, and pour some of the contents of each into my mouth. I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing.

Say a good fellow, if you want a phrase,' returned Herbert, smiling, and clapping his hand on the back of mine: 'a good fellow, with impetuosity and hesitation, boldness and diffidence, action and dreaming curiously mixed in him.

There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.

All sorts, sir. Natives and foreigners. From gentlemen to 'prentices. I have had Frenchwomen come, before now, and show themselves dabs at pistol-shooting. Mad people out of number, of course, but they go everywhere where the doors stand open.

me, though he had business relations with me many years ago, and we are now intimate; I will say with the fair daughter to whom he is so devotedly attached, and who is so devotedly attached to him? Believe me, Miss Pross, I don't approach the topic with you, out of curiosity, but out of zealous interest." "Well! To the best of my understanding, and bad's the best, you'll tell me," said Miss Pross, softened by the tone of the apology, "he is afraid of the whole subject.

I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether

Drat that boy," interposed my sister, frowning at me over work, "what a questioner he is. As no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.