Buying Quote by Margaret Mahy

“cannot avoid the temptation of wondering whether there is any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the…

— Jeannette Walls

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were…

— Milan Kundera

The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer them. He had been extremely chastened…

— Douglas Adams

I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the…

— Clive James

“they were demons about cost. They enjoyed finding a bargain and were proud of getting good quality at a low price. They took great…

— Gary Klein

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks

“He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as…

— Benjamin Black

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and…

— Edward Bernays

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

— Alec-Tweedie

“The man who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy.’ ”

— Lisa Wingate

“People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.”

— Clive Hamilton

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself…

— W. Somerset Maugham