44 Quotes About Antique



  • Author August Wilhelm Schlegel
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    Those critics who consider the authority of the ancients as models to be such, that in poetry, as in all the other arts, there can be no safety out of the pale of imitation, affirm, that as the nations in question have not followed this course, they have brought nothing but irregular works on the stage, which, though they may possess occasional passages of splendour and beauty, must yet, as a whole, be for ever reprobated as barbarous, and wanting in form.

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  • Author Jonathan Gash
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    The Mologai. The sun shines less in the Mologai, but heat gathers there in the shade and smoke. Steep cramped dwellings, shops oldish. Oddly, smoke pervading the whole area. The streets cling to contours. You clamber up steps from one narrow alleyway to the next, among the stalls. It's an antique hunter's paradise - or rather purgatory, because the promise of heaven takes time to realize.

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  • Author John Ashcroft
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    I regret to inform you that we are today sending our troops into the modern field of battle with antique weapons. It is not a prescription for victory,

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  • Author Ursula Andress
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    Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.

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  • Author Anne Brown
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    Time is running out for most antique paper, ... Modern technology is a part of God's plan to help not only with remembering the past but creating future possibilities that at this time we cannot imagine.

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  • Author Daniel Barenboim
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    When I came here, I had the feeling that I had in front of me a most wonderful high quality piece of antique furniture. It was full of dust and needed repair and polishing. I think we have removed the dust and made the repairs.

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  • Author Hamish Bowles
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    This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

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