Quotes About Haggle

If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return visit at the end. They may be more inclined to accept your offer, rather than having to pack the piece up and take it home.

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

Come to me." Stupid to haggle over dominance when they both knew she'd surrendered. "No, come to me." "That's my braw lassie." His smile expressed unfettered admiration. "You know, it would be easy enough to meet in the middle." This

That he would give $100,000 one minute to charity and turn around and haggle over the price of a ton of coal.

The law in our time is, and probably ought to remain, almost unrealistically humanistic; in its eyes, corporations are people, stock exchanges are street-corner marketplaces where buyer and seller haggle face to face, and computers scarcely exist.

He had a mop of unkempt hair dark as any wine-dark sea; a vague sense of coffeehouse revolutionary to him; and quick, furtive eyes that missed little. He was one of those uncomfortably intense men most people find a little unnerving, as if his rhythms were a little too rapid, or perhaps he was too quickly wired through synapse, or bore too many unforgivable grudges, or was too quick to haggle to the death over a nickel.

I'm willing to negotiate on undergarments.

He that does not ask will never get a bargain.

You haggle like a crone with a codfish.

Is it worth going into this admission process in just a little more detail? I think so, if only to appreciate the tendency the Italian authorities have of offering everybody a price (to endear themselves to the electorate) and then, since they can't actually afford to give it to everybody, setting up a maze, or obstacle race, to make sure that only those who really haggle for it (not those who need it) actually get it.

A liberation movement is doomed once it stops to haggle over nuances of good and evil.