Antique Quotes: top 77 famous quotes about Antique

Antique Quotes & Sayings

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

We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves. — Howard Mansfield

An antique is anything old with class. — John Bartlett

For you?" "A relic," he said. "A what?" "An artifact, Mister Dresden. An antique possessed by the Church for several centuries." — Jim Butcher

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

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age. — Thomas Carlyle

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available. — Li Ka-shing

Trust is like a valuable antique, once gone, it can never be replaced. — Mouloud Benzadi

Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play baseball, but there are far better. — Alan Casden

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop. — James Vincent McMorrow

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

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man. — Robert Ardrey

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage — Maurice Barres

Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it. — Michael Sims

I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas. — Lindsey Wixson

What do you think you're going to do with an antique rifle?"

"Probably shoot something with it. — E.J. Fisch

You have to fight against being an antique. — Burt Lancaster

Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture. — Washington Irving

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else. — David Boreanaz

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that. — Paul Lynde

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written. — Oscar Wilde

She walks over to the antique bar cart and pours herself a glass of Scotch from the decanter, like a heroine in a Hitchcock film. Playing the part. — Karina Halle

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think. — Emily Dickinson

Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within. — Steve Jones

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world. — Haruki Murakami

I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. — Ridley Scott

The woods of Arcady are dead,
And over it their antique joy;
Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Gray Truth is now her painted toy. — W.B.Yeats

Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town. — Judith Miller

Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities. — Tom Hoover

My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures. — Gail Z. Martin

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am. — Barbra Streisand

Dwindling slowly on the road behind him like some storybook peddler from an antique time, dark and bent and spider thin and soon to vanish forever. — Cormac McCarthy

I jog at the Rose Bowl, and I collect antique and vintage furniture, so I'm there every few weeks for the flea market. — Theo Rossi

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility. — Nancy Price

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart. — Calvin Klein

For eyes we have no models in the remotely antique. — Edgar Allan Poe

I think people find it weird that I have a lot of long antique-lace dresses that I wear with boots. — Erin Wasson

But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path. — Chogyam Trungpa

The United States is already antique. — Huey Newton

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities. — Erin Wasson

Well . . . well, yes, I suppose it's very old. Perhaps someone just assumed that since it was an antique, it must be worth something. — Kate Milford

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless. — CeeLo Green

If you've ever been antique shopping during a big football game, you're either gay, or married. — Jeff Foxworthy

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel. — Dennis Vickers

When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it. — Erin Wasson

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born. — Carl Sandburg

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

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. — Kenneth Tynan

For an antique, you would fetch quite a price at Sotheby's. All your parts are quite in working order. — Cassandra Clare

If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr. — Marissa Meyer

He was tough as an antique ivory figurine, which has withstood the viscissitudes of centuries and can accept more. — Pat Frank

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. — Daryl Hall

I still like my antique clothes. — Barbra Streisand

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history. — Alice Temperley

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. — Emily Dickinson

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

The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books. — Gail Z. Martin

I wear a lot of different jewelry. I love to look for it when I'm abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop. — Lily Donaldson

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 nonsense — Bertrand Russell

Some men like shiny new toys. Others like the priceless antique. — Donna Lynn Hope

Trust is like an antique, once it's broken, it can never be replaced — Mouloud Benzadi

stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for — William Gibson

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it. — Jaron Lanier

Rich in material, but Devoid of Knowledge is like having an antique Clock with no numbers. Appealing to the eye, but Useless in the modern world. — Andrea L'Artiste

Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front porch. — Abraham Verghese

I'm the oldest antique in town. — Norman Rockwell

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties? — Nigel Slater

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable. — Billy Joel

I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom. — Lance Loud

Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion. — Dane Cook

To be modern means to like antique furniture - and youthful neurosis. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

... his eyes looked different outside. Nearly blue, like a thick, antique glass bottle. — Cara McKenna

Live the life you choose and enjoy the happiness and regret that comes with that life.

~Yong-Kum — Lee Eun

And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
With mask, and antique pageantry,
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream. — John Milton