Quotes About Antique

Si uno se detenía a curiosear a través del cristal, podía ver las paredes forradas de arriba abajo con libros y, si abría la puerta y entraba, inmediatamente lo envolvía el hedor a cartón viejo y hojas de té que impregna el interior de toda librería de lance de Londres.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

A–Z, and its dusty show windows were crammed with a weird clutter of old and exotic-looking objects—huge bronze

Her narrow silhouette and the nuggets of antique silver on her wrists fascinate and perturb him. But the little girl?He'd show the princess the back of his hand and make her yelp. The Inspector's shoes press angrily into the gravel path as he walks to his car.

We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think

Certainly, Doctor. Let's talk about your chair. Victorian?

Old is gold, but new is platinum.

the antique windows and made the just-in-case candles on the dark countertop sputter. She pulled the fuzzy bathrobe closer around her neck. Normally the kitchen's stained glass spilled peacock-bright color into the kitchen.

My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

I am not a big fan of going to malls. I am pretty old-fashioned that way.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

I conned the musty stock. At the back of the shop . . . . glimmered the façade of an enormous dolls' house. I wanted it at once.

daguerreotype

an old Underwood office machine so big and black and ancient it looked as though it should come with a foreign correspondent attached.

Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

Homer was thus at once contemporary in content and antique in form." - Bernard Knox

Oh, Ed!" Mom exclaimed. "It's a Victorian.

relic from an old schoolhouse: a cast-iron base