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Quotes About Shopping

I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.
~ Lianne La Havas
After moving to New York, I started to love vintage shopping.
~ Mark Indelicato
I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.
~ Melanie Fiona
I spend all day thinking of shopping. I love the thrill of finding that wonderful, perfect thing, the feeling of your heart racing because it's so right.
~ Mindy Grossman
I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!
~ Misty Copeland
My first rule of consumerism is never buy anything you can't make your children carry.
~ Bill Bryson
This is something that has been puzzling me for years. Women will stand there watching their items being rung up, and then when the till lady says, 'That's £4.20, love,' or whatever, they suddenly look as if they've never done this sort of thing before. They go 'Oh!' and start rooting in a flustered fashion in their handbag for their purse or chequebook, as if no-one had told them that this might happen.
~ Bill Bryson
It's the place you would go if you wanted to buy a stereo system for under thirty-five dollars and didn't care if it sounded like the band was playing in a mailbox under water in a distant lake.
~ Bill Bryson
To an American shopper there are just three spans of time: now, tomorrow at the very latest, and we'll look elsewhere.
~ Bill Bryson
the cathedral-like Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, which Mark Twain found so enchanting that he declared he would happily live in it for the rest of his life. It is still probably the most beautiful shopping center in the world.
~ Bill Bryson
Whatever was on your shopping list—linseed oil, two-inch masonry nails, coal scuttle, small can of Brasso metal polish—Mr. Morley had it. I am sure if you said to him, "I need 125 yards of razor wire, a ship's anchor, and a dominatrix outfit in a size eight," he would find them for you after rooting around for a few minutes among bird feeders and bags of bone meal. Mr.
~ Bill Bryson
spite of the heat, they are always clad completely in black: shoes, stockings, dresses, and, for town shopping, often a black mantilla.
~ Sylvia Plath
and bought oranges, apples, cheese, nuts and honey. Always feel happy shopping; gives me a sense of "things" somehow: taste color and touch, and a certain power and plentitude.
~ Sylvia Plath
Dear Diary Went out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so. Dear Diary Went out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so.
~ Tad Williams
Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye. 'I find today I am in need of a bonnet.' Mr. Postlethwaite was silent. And then his eyes crept toward the marquess's hairline. 'It will be a gift for a woman, Mr. Postlethwaite.' 'Of course, sir.' The marquess wished the 'of course' sounded a bit more sincere. He'd scarcely been in the shop for more than three minutes and already his dignity was fraying.
~ Julie Anne Long
Every romantic movie with a grocery shopping scene had to have a baguette sticking out of the bag. And a bundle of flowers.
~ Julie Ortolon
I think buying shoes is intimidating for a guy. Sitting down taking your shoes off, for men, it's too much. But you should never be intimidated by anything.
~ Antoine Arnault
I love Forever 21. A friend of mine introduced it to me when I was in New York. I was borrowing a dress and said, 'Where's that from?' and she said, 'Oh, it's Forever 21,' and I said, 'What, I've never heard of that!' and she said, 'Oh it's this American brand,' and I thought, 'Why doesn't England have that; why doesn't Europe have one?'
~ Amber Le Bon
There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.
~ Michael Kors
If I find an item of clothing I like, I tend to buy it in multiples.
~ Alexander Gilkes
I am a sale shopper. I love a discounted item.
~ Brad Goreski
Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.
~ Paul Sweeney
But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.
~ Marc Jacobs
I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.
~ Ali Smith