Curious

Famous quotes containing the word curious:

“Here lies the body of W. W.,
Who never more will trouble you, trouble you.”
—Anonymous. “On William Wilson, Tailor,” from H. J. Loaring’s Curious Records (1872)

“Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
To catechism by a mind too strewn
With petty cares to slightly understand
What awful brain compels His awful hand.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing;
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

“It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)