I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed…
You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.
The fact is that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
One of the weaknesses of human nature is curiosity to learn things which it would not like to know.[La foiblesse humaine est d’avoir Des curiosités d’apprendre Ce qu’on ne voudroit pas sçavoir.]
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Curiosity should be as carefully cherished in children, as other appetites suppressed.
Curiosity is the daughter of jealousy.[La curiosité naît de la jalousie.]
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.