Best Furniture Quotes

#1. They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Christian Lacroix

#2. Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.

Lapo Elkann

#3. Sellout ... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

Bill Withers

#4. Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.

Philip Sidney

#5. A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

Jane Austen

#6. I think by drawing, so I'll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they're in graphics, not words.

Robert Wilson

#7. Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.

John Hopkins

#8. Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

Albert Hadley

#9. In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia ... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.

Olympia Brown

#10. To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

Ingvar Kamprad

#11. It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

Alain De Botton

#12. Among those best known, their highest ambition is to build American homes, possess American furniture, dress in American clothes, adopt the American style of living and be American citizens.

Sheldon Jackson

#13. George was, in truth, one of the sort who evidently have made some mistake in coming into this world at all, as their internal furniture is in no way suited to its general courses and currents.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#14. The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.

Christiaan Huygens

#15. My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.

Alicia Markova

#16. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

Anthony Burgess

#17. I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

William Shakespeare

#18. A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

E.W. Howe

#19. 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

#20. It looks different when you're sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.

Neil Simon

#21. He was in his secret room in the heart now. Having entered he could be bold. A man hasn't to be on his best behavior in Heaven; he can kick the furniture around. He can stoop down and picks up lumps of mortality without being born again to die.

Patrick Kavanagh

#22. The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.

Sheherazade Goldsmith