Second-Hand Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
— John le Carre
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My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.
— Loni Anderson
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My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a…
— Wentworth Miller
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All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
— George Henry Lewes
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Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand,
— Herta Muller
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Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
— Leigh Hunt
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I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
— Bjork
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In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
— Cyril Connolly
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?
— Hilary Mantel
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So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
— Will Self
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I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer…
— Roz Savage
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Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
— Orlando Bloom
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I love going to second-hand stores.
— Victoria Justice
Who Wrote These Second-Hand Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Second-Hand Quotes as follows: