Quotes About Value

Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say.

If I'm good enough to bed, surely I'm good enough to wed.

In a way, an autobiography seems to me like a household book of accounts – what has been acquired, to what purpose has it been put, was too much paid for it and did it teach you anything? How much has been learned by experience? Have I discovered where I am useful and useless, how I am nourished and starved?

All you ever care about is money. That's all that matters to you! The only thing you understand is money, what a thing is worth in money.

What is dollar value but something to amuse people who have no imagination? People who have money and no imagination follow fashion. People who have imagination and no money fashion styles.

If you save yourself for marriage, and then you don't get married, then what you saved isn't worth anything. It's like Confederate money. You're bankrupt, you have nowhere to spend it." Caroline to Peggy

A life could be spent like an apology—to prove you had been worth it.

Everything in my life that I value has been gained at the cost of not saying what I really think and saying what they want me to say.

Do you truly feel that she is worth your wings?" He smiled. "What good are my wings, friend, when I can hold the world in my arms?

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has.

La mantequilla sube diez centavos. El ser humano baja.

Everyone needs to feel important.

Everyone has to feel like they matter.

she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.

He made me feel that I mattered.

love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn't choose it. And if her platter had been full with the goodness of Henry and she had found it burdensome, had flicked it off crumbs at a time, it was because she had not known what one should know: that day after day was unconsciously squandered.

Maybe you fall in love with people who save your life, even when you think it's not worth saving.

I thought again about how my mother—my real one—had said this to me one day. And she was absolutely right. Everyone has to feel like they matter.

that love was not to be tossed away carelessly, as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed around again. No, if love was available, one chose it, or didn't choose it.

You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

He profits most who serves best.

to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

A world where nothing is had for nothing.