Antiques Quotes

• An antique is anything old with class.

  John Bartlett

  Class

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Admiration, Natural, Aeroplanes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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

  Kelly Wearstler

  Vintage, Inspired

  "Kelly Wearstler Celebrates Her Fourth Book, 'Rhapsody'". Interview with Rebecca Moss, www.elle.com. February 07, 2013.

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• Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.

  Cee Lo Green

  Appreciation, Heirlooms, Timeless

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• Trees are your best antiques

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Tree, Environment

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.257

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

  Broderick Crawford

  Beautiful

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

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Age, Youth

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• My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

  Alice Temperley

  Pieces, Favourite

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Old Friends, Remember

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

  Billy Joel

  May, Stones, Valuable

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• Some say the antique syndrome surfaced to offset the newness of the land, the homes, and the settlers. Some say the interest was initiated by a desire to return to the roots of yesterday. I contend the entire movement to acquire antiques was born out of sheer respect of things that lasted longer than fifteen minutes.

  Erma Bombeck

  Home, Roots, Yesterday

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.

  Martha Plimpton

  Character, Dark, Woods

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

  Tina Fey

  Ridiculous, Quaaludes

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• 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.

  Judith Miller

  Mean, Entrances, Visiting

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• I'm the oldest antique in town.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Towns

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• Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

  Josh Lanyon

  Book, Old Things, Vintage

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

  Stephen Bayley

  Certain, Interest, Aesthetic

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Secret, World, Clock

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• Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Light, Shining, World

  Paul Gauguin (1920). “Noa Noa”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Book, Thinking, Dresses

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.22, Delphi Classics

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• Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Future, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Restoration, Saving, May

  Howard Mansfield (2001). “The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age”, p.12, UPNE

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

  Bob Dylan

  Collectors, Walking

  Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Home, Clothes, Space

  "The Prince". Political treatise by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532.

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