Quotes About Curiosity

Everyone was watching Maigret. Children followed him, one of them imitating his heavy gait.

Does it ever occur to you, Mama, that my grandfather is a lunatic?

I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books

How very odd, to be sure!' 'What is?' She walked on, her brow a little furrowed. 'Wishing to kiss someone you never saw before in your life. It seems quite mad-brained to me, besides showing a sad want of particularity.

What is your name? Again sir, that is no concern of yours. A mystery, he said. I shall have to call you Clorinda. ..... Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. Has there been an accident? Judith, repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. I prefer Clorinda.

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

That Fish of yours is queer in her attic.' 'Freddy, she is not!' Must be. Dash it, wouldn't write to you about Henry VIII if she wasn't! Stands to reason.

Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia, which the Vicar, whose only personal extravagance was his purchase of books, had lately added to his library.

Lady Winwood being denied, the morning caller inquired with some anxiety for Miss Winwood, or, in fact, for any of the young ladies.

is a source of constant wonder to me how I came to have such a cork-brained parent. However, I have not the slightest reason to believe that my poor mother played him false. It must remain an enigma.

Really, I don't know what the world is coming to if I am to be suspected of staring in at windows!

But as for Thaddeus Drybeck, words fail me!' The Inspector, placing no dependence on this statement, waited for her to continue.

Miss Thane turned her head to look up at Sir Tristram. 'I wish you will tell me what you did,' she said. 'You were not on the Brighton mail, were you? Is it possible that you rode here ventre à terre ?' 'No,' replied Sir Tristram. 'I came post.' Miss Thane seemed to abandon interest in his proceedings.

It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books.

You must remember that nothing is more wearisome than to be obliged to listen to stories about a set of persons one has never seen.

Of all the questions in the world I believe What are you thinking about? to be the most impertinent.

She opened her eyes very wide at

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Für alle, die in einer komplizierten gesellschaftlichen Ordnung aufgewachsen sind, gibt es keinen berauschenderen Augenblick als den Beginn einer wilden Reise. Das Gartentor wird aufgestoßen und siehe da! Die unermessliche Welt.

the children could tell, because they could hear the hum of

where they had come from. The baker's wife saw them first, as they stood looking in at the window of her store. The little boy was looking at the cakes, the big boy was looking at the loaves of bread, and the two girls were looking at the cookies.

Then she saw something ahead of her in the woods. It

top of those. Violet filled her arms with brush