Quotes About Value

What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, the trouble of the world!

momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.

In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.

A room where one merely goes to bed costs twenty sous but a room where one retires may cost twenty francs.

Madame Magloire, retorted the Bishop, you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

you are looking at a plain man and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. ... perhaps more so.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

She was a pretty blonde with fine teeth. For dowry, she had gold and pearls; but the gold was on her head and the pearls were in her mouth.

The beautiful is as useful as the useful.

A vida é uma invenção medonha não sei de quem. Uma coisa que não dura nada e não vale nada; a gente se mata para viver.

One of the drawbacks of sleeping with whores, he thought lazily. You got what you paid for, and not a goddamn thing more.

He saw her beauty...but he looked past it. Either that, or he was smart enough to see that she wanted to offer more to the world than a pretty face.

She had counted on a lifetime to teach her children what they needed to know, but she didn't have that gift of grace and time. Still, she had given them what mattered: they were loved and they knew it. Everything else was decoration.

He saw her beauty, even in the half-light, she could tell, but he looked past it. Either that, or he was smart enough to see that she wanted to offer more to the world than a pretty face.

Words were like pennies, fallen into corners and down the cracks, not worth the effort of collecting.

She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.

I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Dreams. They'd had so many of them, and a surprising number had come true. The funny thing was that she hadn't valued them all highly enough when she'd had the chance.

they'd learn what needed to be held close in life, and what wasn't worth worrying over.

If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

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