Second-Hand Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

• 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
• Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. — John le Carre
• 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
• 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
• All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes
• Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand, — Herta Muller
• Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses. — Leigh Hunt
• I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in. — Bjork
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden? — Hilary Mantel
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage. — Orlando Bloom
• 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:

• 2 Second-Hand Quotes by Sophie Ellis Bextor
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Leigh Hunt
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Cyril Connolly
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by D. H. Lawrence
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by John le Carre
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by George Henry Lewes
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Wentworth Miller
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Loni Anderson
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Victoria Justice
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Hilary Mantel
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Will Self
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Herta Muller
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Roz Savage
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Bjork
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Chuck Palahniuk
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Second-Hand Quote by Orlando Bloom