Quotes About Cheapness

#1. Here's what I think: the five most
unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and
jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

Douglas Coupland

#2. We have come to have no idea of profit other than financial profit. The delusion is that cheapness leads to plenty. But what use is plenty of rubbish?

Walter James

#3. Manufacturers ... gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour.

David Hume

#4. The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

Robert Smith Surtees

#5. All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.

Ezra Pound

#6. Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Henry Rollins

#7. Demand and supply are the opposite extremes of the beam, whence depend the scales of dearness and cheapness; the price is the point of equilibrium, where the momentum of the one ceases, and that of the other begins.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#8. The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low; for we musthave a society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

Paul A. Volcker

#10. The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

Emily Post

#11. A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece, ladies, and choose it well; everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness).

Kristin Hannah

#12. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring - to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.

Michael Pollan

#13. It has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness and cheapness to them.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

Elizabeth Joan Smith

#15. Wait! Don't applaud my cheapness! I've got other crap I need help with!

Craig Ferguson

#16. Cheapness is a great virtue.

Bill Bryson

#17. People who know their worth can live austerely; it's the people nagged by the gnawing knowledge of their own cheapness who have that eternal necessity for submerging themselves in what they feel is superlative in material things, as if fine possessions could make them fine.

Mabel Seeley

#18. I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th].

Daniel Clowes

#19. Every child's bedroom is as important as a telescope orbiting the planet earth or a philosopher's study.

Jerry Spinelli

#20. A student was given a mentoring opportunity, in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

Thomas Hughes

#21. Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

George Santayana

#22. I don't remember using a dirty pipe like that. My pipe isn't a cheap piece of crap. It was made by the name brand "Bitch".-Tsukuyo

Hideaki Sorachi

#23. All the men send you orchids because they're expensive and they know that you know they are. But I always kind of think they're cheap, don't you, just because they're expensive. Like telling someone how much you paid for something to show off.

Winifred Watson

#24. Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it

Lee Kuan Yew

#25. Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire."

Hank Stuever

#26. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.

Hermann Hesse

#28. After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Criss Jami

#29. I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

Katie Price