Mycuriosityabout alien cultureswas avidand obsessive. I had a placid belief that it was good for me to live in the midst of peoplewhosemotives Idid not understand; this unreasoned conviction was clearly an attempt to legitimize my curiosity.

-Bowles, Paul Frederick
  Without Stopping:  An  Autobiography, ch.14.

Il y a toujours un moment o  u' la curiosite¤   devient un pe¤  che¤  , et le diable s'est toujours mis du co"  te¤   des savants. There is always a moment when curiosity becomes a sin and the devil is always on the side of the learned.

-Thibault
  Le Jardin d'Epicure.

And the motive for recording these scraps of the past? It Greenspan is much the same motive that has made me a novelist: a desire to reduce a chaos of experience to some sort of order, and a hungry curiosity.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
A Sort of Life, preface.

But there was one Elephantöa new Elephantöan Elephant's Childöwho was full of 'satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Just So Stories,'The Elephant's Child'.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

-Lamb, Charles
  In the London Magazine, May^  Jul. Collected in Essays of Elia,'Detached Thoughts of Books and Reading'.

Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Not So Deep as AWell,'Inventory'.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

-Swift, Graham
  Waterland, ch.27.

   The brute curiosity of an angel's stare Turn you like them to stone.

-Tate, (John Orley) Allen
  Poems1922^1947,'Ode to the Confederate Dead'.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilisation.

-Trevelyan, George Macaulay
  English Social History.

Only when onehas lost all curiosity has onereached the age to write an autobiography.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  A Little Learning, opening words.