Top 100 Antique Quotes
#1. I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table.
Ridley Scott
#2. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. (Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them cleaned. That's the way they last forever.
William Baldwin
#4. Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labor all along,
Endless labor to be wrong:
Phrase that Time has flung away;
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Samuel Johnson
#5. Hell is only the Cringe Eternal and the Place of our Self's Undoing. When Nietzsche proclaimed "God is Dead!" he forgot to add that Satan is also dead and we are free from all that antique tat.
Grant Morrison
#6. I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
Daryl Hall
#7. Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.
Li Ka-shing
#8. Officers looked at the antique once-animals that eyed them back, at the no giant tank, at the nowhere anything so big and missing as Architeuthis could be.
China Mieville
#9. Dwindling slowly on the road behind him like some storybook peddler from an antique time, dark and bent and spider thin and soon to vanish forever.
Cormac McCarthy
#10. Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
Kelly Wearstler
#11. I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
Erin Wasson
#12. Street law dictated that for a parley of this kind each lieutenant be seconded by two of his foot soldiers and that they all be unarmed. Parley. The word felt like a deception - strangely prim, an antique. No matter what street law decreed, this night smelled like violence.
Leigh Bardugo
#13. Already he [humanity] is physically antique in this robot world he has created. All that sustains him is that small globe of grey matter through which spin his ever-changing conceptions of the universe.
Loren Eiseley
#14. Trust is like a valuable antique, once gone, it can never be replaced.
Mouloud Benzadi
#15. Growing old is God's privilege to you ... you only can be compared to any antique and old wine ... antiques are expensive and old wines taste best ... above all, it beats the alternative
DYING YOUNG. So cheer up and be grateful that God is giving you that privilege.
Peekey
#16. Whoa," Madison whistled, craning her neck to examine the chandelier.
"This is even fancier than Red Lobster," Reagan said in awe.
"Look at this rich people's hockey-stick holder," Madison said as she ran a slightly grubby finger along the edge of the antique umbrella stand. "I want one!
Clifford Riley
#17. The essence of modern capitalism is not slavery of the antique pattern but the possession of the expensive tools of production by a small plutocratic group which controls frequently the tools of persuasion.
Francis Stuart Campbell
#18. Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
Michael Sims
#19. The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.
Ray Bradbury
#20. Well . . . well, yes, I suppose it's very old. Perhaps someone just assumed that since it was an antique, it must be worth something.
Kate Milford
#21. The money means nothing to me. For that matter, the antique shop means nothing. It's simply a means to an end I want the farm, Stuart. Not for it's monetary value, but for its intrinsic value. It's my home. The only one I've really known, and I'll do anything to keep it." - Alyssa Mccord
Peggy Moreland
#22. In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people ... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
William Robertson Smith
#24. Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
M.J. Rose
#25. This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
Haruki Murakami
#26. A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.
Anita Shreve
#27. The heavy trees,
The grunting, shuffling branches, the robust,
The nocturnal, the antique, the blue-green pines
Deepen the feelings to inhuman depths.
Wallace Stevens
#28. I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.
Kathleen Robertson
#29. People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.
Allan Gurganus
#30. I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.
Lindsey Wixson
#31. Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
Oscar Wilde
#32. For an antique, you would fetch quite a price at Sotheby's. All your parts are quite in working order.
Cassandra Clare
#33. I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market.
Theo Rossi
#34. Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world.
Andrea L'Artiste
#35. precisely the same way the pastoral novels of George Sand, which she was giving me for my birthday, were regular lumber-rooms of antique furniture, full of expressions that have fallen out of use and returned as imagery, such as one finds now only in country dialects.
Marcel Proust
#36. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.
John Milton
#37. I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.
Avril Lavigne
#38. Trust is like an antique, once it's broken, it can never be replaced
Mouloud Benzadi
#39. The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
Gail Z. Martin
#40. I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.
Atticus Shaffer
#41. My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.
Poppy Delevingne
#42. And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry,
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream.
John Milton
#43. He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.
Fannie Flagg
#44. I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.
Francesca Lia Block
#45. When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
Barbra Streisand
#46. I wear a lot of different jewelry. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.
Lily Donaldson
#47. She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique ...
Bob Dylan
#48. Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.
Jane Cleland
#49. Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.
Thomas Carlyle
#50. Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
Ursula Andress
#51. The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!"
"You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that.
Warren Ellis
#52. We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.
Howard Mansfield
#53. We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
Carl Sandburg
#54. A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think.
Emily Dickinson
#55. When the Lord is known as the heart of every joy, as well as the refuge from every sorrow, then the altar will be known for what it is - an ecclesiastical antique. The Father permitted but never ordained sacrifice; in tenderness to his children he ordered the ways of their unbelieving belief.
George MacDonald
#56. If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr.
Marissa Meyer
#57. Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
Robert Ardrey
#58. My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.
Calvin Klein
#59. I love to discuss WWI American Trench Watches. If you have a question about one of my books, a Waltham Trench Watch or an Elgin Trench Watch drop me a line through my web page at LRF Antique Watches. I'll do my best to get back with you quickly!
Stan Czubernat
#60. On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.
Arne Jacobsen
#61. There are some old machines like antique sewing machine or pasta machine; seeing them is seeing our great grandmothers, touching them is touching our grandmothers!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice was smooth and kind, and once in a while an observation that would ring so true it vibrated like flicked crystal.
Lauren Groff
#63. Teach your boy to fly, and he will be safe from spears and antique rifles." "I don't want him to go to war at all!" "When it comes, you will have no choice. The only way to save him is to lift him above the crowd.
Elizabeth Wein
#65. I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.
Ben Mezrich
#66. If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.
Dan Brown
#67. When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.
Erin Wasson
#68. stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for
William Gibson
#69. The luminescent flow of a sunbathed garden - illuminating the shifting colors of its inhabitants - echoed in my memory as I opened the antique bookstore door in the shaft of window light.
The books, like the flowers of the garden, awaited me with the thrill of a new mystery.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#70. My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.
Alice Temperley
#71. When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
Ursula Andress
#73. Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.
Mimi Sheraton
#74. Perhaps we are passing through an age of democratisation in art, while awaiting the rise of some princely master who shall establish a new dynasty. Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique. The
Kakuzo Okakura
#75. We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage
Maurice Barres
#76. Do not be cursed by documented findings and so-called facts; invention itself is not yet an antique for the museum. Not every voice has the right to sponsor your beliefs and words.
Archibald Marwizi
#77. Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
Brand Blanshard
#78. Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
Paul Gauguin
#80. Owen Zupp is an award-winning writer, published author and commercial pilot with nearly 17,000 hours of flight time. He has flown all manner of machines from antique biplanes to globe-trotting Boeings and shared the journey with readers around the world in a variety of publications.
Owen Zupp
#81. The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the
psyche and society into a single echo chamber.
Marshall McLuhan
#82. She walks over to the antique bar cart and pours herself a glass of Scotch from the decanter, like a heroine in a Hitchcock film. Playing the part.
Karina Halle
#83. As we neared the water, I pointed out an antique taxidermy shop. "My mom and I used to always go in there," I said. "It's like a zoo, except all the animals are dead.
Amy Plum
#84. Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
Jaron Lanier
#85. The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#86. Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.
Valerie June
#87. That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long.
Agatha Christie
#88. I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.
Billy Joel
#89. A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.
Nancy Price
#90. It had seemed like a good idea at the time, a sure-fire way to impress this girl, who was as cute as hell but wound tighter than one of his father's antique clocks.
Ros Baxter
#91. You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.
Judith Miller
#92. My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.
Zoey Deutch
#93. Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play baseball, but there are far better.
Alan Casden
#95. Our enemy is the old school of thought, or rather, the people who defend the old school of thought. They do this in the name of antique Indian policies, culture and values.
Chetan Bhagat
#96. But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.
Chogyam Trungpa
#97. I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.
May Kendall
#98. Harvard (across the river in Cambridge) and Boston are two ends of one mustache ... Without the faculty, the visitors, the events that Harvard brings to the life here, Boston would be intolerable to anyone except genealogists, antique dealers, and those who find repletion in a closed local society.
Elizabeth Hardwick
#100. A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
John Hodgman
