Antique Quotes
78 Antique quotes by 69 unique authors
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A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.
— John Hodgman
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I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally…
— Avril Lavigne
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
— Carl Sandburg
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
— Barbra Streisand
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a…
— Florence Welch
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We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.
— Emily Dickinson
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When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty, workday clothes, and put on…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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She's a hypnotist collector; you are a walking antique...
— Bob Dylan
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Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?
— Nigel Slater
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The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique…
— Bertrand Russell
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They went to university because someone, at a time when universities seemed important, said that in order to rise in the world, you had to…
— Paulo Coelho
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Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique…
— Nick Hornby
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.
— Emily Dickinson
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Louis-Cesare’s anger suddenly filled the small room like water, and in a heartbeat his eyes went from silver tinged to as solid as two antique…
— Karen Chance
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This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.
— Haruki Murakami
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White and scrubbed, antique brass fixtures and a skylight letting in a flood of sunshine. Wow. You could get a tan standing around in the…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard,…
— Fannie Flagg
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch…
— Oscar Wilde
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Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or…
— Ally Carter
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand…
— Emily Dickinson
Who Wrote These Antique Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 78 Antique Quotes, led by these top contributors: