Curious

Famous quotes containing the word curious:

“They are a curious mixture of Spanish tradition, American imitation, and insular limitation. This explains why they never catch on to themselves.”
—Helen Lawrenson (1904–1982)

“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)

“Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)