Antiques Quotes

“I call it guerilla TV.”

— Marsha Bemko Producer of Antiques Roadshow

I am a hoarder when it comes to antiques.

— Sophie Thatcher

You have to fight against being an antique

— Burt Lancaster

For me, antiques are a passion.

— Dimple Kapadia

Whenever you see me, I'm on antique quaaludes.

— Tina Fey

Shepton Mallet have a really big antiques market that my mum always makes me go to.

— Daisy Lowe

Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.

— Dave Barry

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.

— Washington Irving

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

— Martha Plimpton

“If people as valuable as antiques, maybe then we would treasure each other.”

— VD

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

— John Hodgman

I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.

— Lindsey Wixson

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

— Emily Dickinson

Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual…

— Jane Cleland

I love Steve Harvey on 'Family Feud.' I love 'Antiques Roadshow' and 'Fixer Upper.' Anything that's mind-numbing.

— Margo Martindale

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

— Josh Lanyon

I don't know anything about antiques. I do buy them now, but I have a little knowledge, and great enthusiasm.

— Fiona Bruce

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust…

— Fannie Flagg

You know what, maybe I just want a different kind of life. Maybe I want to open an antique store and coffee…

— Aya Cash

The thing is, if you come on the 'Roadshow' we are not going to humiliate you. The thing about the 'Antiques Roadshow'…

— Fiona Bruce

“Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno,…

— Jonathan Gash

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a…

— Thorstein Veblen

My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy…

— Florence Welch

If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return…

— Judith Miller

I think films are perishable, because they depend too much on technology, which advances too quickly and the films become old-fashioned, antiques.…

— Luis Bunuel

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense…

— Arne Jacobsen

I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I…

— Monica Potter

What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I…

— Alan Jackson

When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

“Every inch of space was used. As the road narrowed, signs receded upwards and changed to the vertical. Businesses simply soared from…

— Jonathan Gash

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off…

— Charles Baudelaire

“The Nazi salute was performed by public officials in the USA from 1892 through 1942. The researcher Dr. Rex Curry asks 'What…

— Micky Barnetti

I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people…

— Woody Allen

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and…

— Richard Francis Burton

Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau…

— Elizabeth Montagu

When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

— Mason Cooley

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

— Sergio Leone

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage

— Maurice Barres