Antiques Quotations

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.

You have to fight against being an antique

I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

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

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

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

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

My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets.

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

It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

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.

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

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

I collect traditional Aubusson tapestries that you can hang on a wall. The last lot I bought were from an antiques fair in London.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

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

I still like my antique clothes.

I collect antiques. Why? Because they're beautiful.

When the inn remodeled in the 1950s, tons of Arts and Crafts furnishings were just thrown out or given away. Now they're so collectible, Grove Park Inn antiques have a category on eBay.

I am hearing from some people that antiques bought online were not received as described,

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Looking for antiques is what we love. Most anytime that we're traveling, the car seems to find where there's an antique shop.

With all the activities we have here at the stadium, we will hit the one million mark this summer. With amateur baseball, professional baseball, soccer, antiques fairs, concerts and the like, we've seen significant attendance at the field. We'll be watching the count, and we expect to see our one millionth guest sometime in early July!

We have a lot of antiques and folk art and historical things, but we also like the clean lines of modern furniture. It's kind of a fusion.

When antiques started to decline, I shifted more of my square footage over to new furniture and decor, ... The antique mall is now 30 percent of the square footage where at one point it was 100 percent.

Trees are your best antiques

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

Eric loves to visit antique shops and I do too. It's always been a love for both of us and his aunt was an antique dealer. We've always talked about doing something with antiques and teaching people to identify what they have and so I said, 'let's go for it!' It's also to introduce people to the art of being able to assess what it is that you have. People go out and frequent these garage sales and the antique shops and sometimes they just see something that's pretty, but they have no idea what the value is.

There will be quilts for sale, antiques for sale and the merchant mall with tons of fabrics, notions and anything a quilter could ever want.

The one good thing about the antiques business is the more, the better.

I know a lot about a lot of things, but there's always something to learn. That's the beauty of the antiques business.

If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.

If you were selling antiques in the Bay area, now your market is not just consumers (there), but in the entire United States,

My mom used to take me to antique shows, which I hated because everything was so dusty and old and there were all these weird ladies selling their antiques. We call them "eclectic" now. But it was really amazing that I was exposed to that when I was younger. Now that I have my own taste, I understand it more.

I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.

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

I love history everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

I'm the oldest antique in town.

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

An antique is anything old with class.

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

When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.

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 shower, for Christ's sake.

I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.

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

The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.

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

The United States is already antique.

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

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

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

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

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