Antiques Quotes · Page 4

The United States is already antique.

— Huey Newton

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

— Broderick Crawford

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

— Nigel Slater

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

— Kelly Wearstler

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

— Li Ka-shing

I think people find it weird that I have a lot of long antique-lace dresses that I wear with boots.

— Erin Wasson

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

— Alice Temperley

In my house, I have a whole row of just antiques. Most of my house is essentially an antique store.

— Sophie Thatcher

She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...

— Anonymous

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

— Jaron Lanier

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm not a big fan of antiques shows or 'Cash In The Attic.' I don't care about the rubbish in your loft!…

— Emma Willis

(Antique clocks) need servicing just like your automobile or anything else. They're mechanical, and about every 10 years you should have them…

— William Baldwin

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them,…

— Oscar Wilde

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every…

— Bertrand Russell

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be…

— Oscar Wilde

I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular…

— Lara Spencer

My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any…

— Zoey Deutch

I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished…

— May Kendall

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition…

— Pankaj Mishra

If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting…

— Dan Brown

This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming…

— Pope Francis

“The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little…

— Jonathan Gash

An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York,…

— John Updike

I had a dream about riding a black cat, and then the next day I was at this antique mart, and I…

— Cassandra Peterson

“The Mologai. The sun shines less in the Mologai, but heat gathers there in the shade and smoke. Steep cramped dwellings, shops…

— Jonathan Gash

God is not merely at your fingertips but within your grasp. Live each day like a child digging through an antique treasure…

— Margaret Feinberg

And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted…

— John Milton

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art claims to be the largest in the western hemisphere. It's right, but I'm not too sure about…

— Jonathan Gash

You know, where I come from, an antique, to be called an antique, it has to be at least a hundred years…

— Craig Ferguson

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.

— Tom Hoover

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

— Jacob Braude

I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

— Zuleikha Robinson

I can talk about sports and stuff, but I have a season pass for 'Antiques Roadshow' on my TiVo.

— Paul Rudd

Antiques Roadshow' is a public service. It reflects the nation back to itself, as does 'Question Time.'

— Fiona Bruce

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— VD

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters…

— Ted Hughes

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have…

— Martin Freeman