Antiques Quotes

An antique is anything old with class.

— John Bartlett

I am a hoarder when it comes to antiques.

— Sophie Thatcher

“I call it guerilla TV.”

— Marsha Bemko Producer of Antiques Roadshow

I travel a lot; I go hunting for antiques.

— Dimple Kapadia

I'm the oldest antique in town.

— Norman Rockwell

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

— Tina Fey

For me, antiques are a passion.

— Dimple Kapadia

You have to fight against being an antique

— Burt Lancaster

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— John Hodgman

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

— Zuleikha Robinson

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

— Alice Temperley

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

— Anonymous

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

— Jacob Braude

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

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

— VD

There's a good deal of ivory being sold that claims to be antique ivory. In fact, we've seen evidence that there are…

— Allen Crawford

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

— Ursula Andress

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full…

— Sara Sheridan

We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we…

— Howard Mansfield

Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and…

— Lara Spencer

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of…

— Erin Wasson

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the…

— Mary Russell Mitford

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect…

— Ursula Andress

I think in my generation, when I came along in the early '60s, the type of music that was in vogue in…

— Frank Sinatra Jr

Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest…

— Erma Bombeck

My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were…

— Jason Wu

My house is very serious. It's a lot of antiques, and the way I decided to liven it up is, I paired…

— Emily Procter

The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the…

— Marshall McLuhan

Television cannot be seen as a 'job for life.' My CV is full of programmes that I used to present. I was…

— Angela Rippon

When I did my first price guide in 1979, publications weren't interested in mentioning it. Now I get phone calls weekly if…

— Judith Miller

Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new: Endless labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Jonathan Gash

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

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

— Micky Barnetti

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

— Elizabeth Montagu

[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

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

— Margaret Feinberg

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

— Jonathan Gash