Quotes on Expensive

Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Our distrust is very expensive.

The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.