Expensive Quotes - Page 15

• Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

  George Eliot

  Self, Simplicity, Consciousness

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• I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.

  Marguerite Duras

  Beautiful, Lying, Thinking

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• GUESS WHERE I AM. CLUE? she texted back SWEAR U WON'T TELL A SOUL? U HAVE 2 ASK? I reluctantly texted,@ DINNER W. MARCIE'S DAD. #?@#$?!& MY MOM IS DATING HIM. TRAITOR! IF THEY GET MARRIED, U & MARCIE... COULD USE A LITTLE CONSOLATION HERE! DOES HE KNOW UR TEXTING ME? Vee asked. NO. THEY R INSIDE. I'M IN THE PARKING LOT ----COOPERSMITHS. THE PIMP. 2 GOOD 4 APPLEBEE'S, I SEE. I'M GOING 2 ORDER THE MOST EXPENSIVE THIN ON THE MENU. IF ALL GOES WELL,HIM GOING TO THROW HANK'S DRINK IN HIS FACE 2. ~Nora & Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Dad, Order

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• I hate to make the comparison here, but think of me as one of those expensive boutiques. If you have to ask about the cost, you probably can’t afford me.

  Cherie Priest

  Hate, Thinking, Cost

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.22, Spectra

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• My body is not designed to run. My body was designed to sit in an expensive care and drive.

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Body, Care

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• I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mad, Effort, World

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• I think Bob appreciated my outfit. He made me buy the more expensive pendant. You might think that was to my disadvantage, but I accept that status comes with a price.” “Not usually so immediately.” I shake my head. “You better not be hitting on federal agent ladies. They’ll arrest you.” His grin widens. “I like handcuffs.” I groan. “There is something seriously wrong with you.” “Nothing that a night being worked over by a hot representative of justice couldn’t fix.

  Holly Black

  Night, Thinking, Justice

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• jace's clothes had been clean,stylish,ordinary. Sebastian had been wearing a long black wool trench coat that had looked expensive. Like an evil Burbeery ad, Simon said when she was done.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, Long, Evil

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• Awesome! I'd just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn't care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you're doing a shot with Jesus, you don't buy him scotch.

  Kevin Hearne

  Jesus, Believe, Scotch

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hammered (with bonus short story): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Three”, p.116, Del Rey

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• The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

  J. D. Salinger

  School, Crooks

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Glasses, Names

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• How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Died

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Stone and a Word", Chapter: "Unuttered Words", p. 59), June 13, 2012.

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• It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pyramids, Life And Death, Appreciate Life

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Flower, Two, Three

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.2023, Delphi Classics

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• The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.

  Stella Gibbons

  Art, Epidemics, Years

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.

  Bill Bryson

  Self, People, Black

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• Gifts need not be expensive; after all, "it's the thuoght that counts." But I remind you, it is not the thought left in your head that counts; it is the gift that came out of the thought that communicates emotional love.

  Gary Chapman

  Emotional, Needs, Communicate

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• Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Son, Land

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• I hate Gucci,' said Francis. 'Do you?' said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. 'Really? I think it's rather grand.' 'Come on, Henry.' 'Well, it's so expensive, but it's so ugly too, isn't it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.' 'I don't see what you think is grand about that.' 'Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale,' said Henry.

  Donna Tartt

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• Sire," Oliver said as he helped Petunia to her feet, "I'd like to marry Petunia. "Of course you would," retorted the King Gregor. "But not right now! we just got those two taken care of." He pointed to the twins who were still trying to play Christian's odd game. "And weddings are expensive!

  Jessica Day George

  Christian, Kings, Taken

  Jessica Day George (2012). “Princess of the Silver Woods”, p.322, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

  Coco Chanel

  Things In Life, Second Best, Cool Status

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• Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

  Catherine DeVrye

  Change, Leadership, Business

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• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Future, Science, Past

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• Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Wish

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.262, Ballantine Books

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• 500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.

  Steve Ballmer

  Stupid, Iphone, Phones

  "FLASHBACK: Steve Ballmer's First Take On The iPhone, January 2007" by Henry Blodget, www.businessinsider.com. Junuary 30, 2010.

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