Variety - Quotes

If order in objects is necessary, variety is so also; without this the soul grows languid, for objects which resemble each other appear to it to be the same; thus histories please us by the variety of relations, romances by the variety of prodigies, theatrical pieces by the variety of passions; and they who properly instruct us vary as much as they can their form of instruction. - John Hinton

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. - Pubilius Syrus

Nothing is pleasant which is not spiced with variety. - Francis Bacon

Periodical variety is the want of the soul as well as of the body. - Francois Charles Marie Fourier

The beauty of the universe consists not only of unity in variety, but also of variety in unity. - Umberto Eco

The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change and pleased with novelty, might be indulged. - William Cowper

The eye is pleased with the beautiful varieties of nature. - Virgil

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. - Publilius Syrus

There is a grace in wild variety surpassing rule and order. - William Mason

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another. - Leonardo da Vinci

Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. - Matthew Prior

Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. - Jean Paul

Variety is pleasing to all persons, but to none so much as the young and the fickle. - George Crabb

Variety is the soul of pleasure. - Aphra Behn

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills. - Doug Cooper