Antiques Quotes

• 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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• An antique is anything old with class.

  John Bartlett

  Class

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

  Broderick Crawford

  Beautiful

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

  Mason Cooley

  Art, Age, Youth

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

  Alice Temperley

  Pieces, Favourite

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

  Tina Fey

  Ridiculous, Quaaludes

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• I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

  Sara Sheridan

  Father, Home, Treasure

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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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• I'm the oldest antique in town.

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Towns

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• Sign outside a country shop: We buy junk and sell antiques.

  Dave Barry

  God, Country, Stupidity

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Mushrooms

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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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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• 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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• Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dawn, Degrees, Watches

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

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