Furniture Quotes

In actuality, it was like the homes of all people who are not really rich but who want to look rich, and therefore end up looking like one another: it had damasks, ebony, plants, carpets, and bronzes, everything dark and gleaming—all the effects a certain class of people produce so as to look like people of a certain class. And his place looked so much like the others that it would never have been noticed, though it all seemed quite exceptional to him.

~ Leo Tolstoy

No furniture is so charming as books.

~ Sydney Smith

Books do furnish a room.

~ Anthony Powell

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

~ Jane Austen

The principal furniture in Billie's mind was a good-sized bed.

~ Budd Schulberg

Most journeys are armchair calculations strategically charted in some reclined state that are designed to allow us to embark upon a grand journey without ever leaving the armchair. However, real journeys are absent of furniture.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an ey

~ Derek Landy

Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent.

~ Terry Pratchett

There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there, the other is to distract his mind.

~ Mary Roberts Rinehart

Unlike fine furniture, a man is better unfinished.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The Doktor was very vond, I mean fond of Vluffy, so he gave him a flame-proof doggie-jacket. It was dull grey, but it had a tartan pattern on it. Vluffy liked his doggie-jacket and wore it all the time. When things went ‘bang’ he could just roll over, dust himself off and quickly scamper off with the doggie jacket flapping on his back. So in short, Vluffy was a very happy little dog who spent a lot of his time hiding under furniture. But the point is that he’d had a lot of time. Much more than those who went (up in smoke) before him.

~ Christina Engela

Love is the canvas covering the furniture that you've become a part of

~ Josh Stern

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I think that is supposed to be good, that I get less from him but I feel worthless.

~ Thalia Chaltas

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

~ Adalbert Stifter

If he was looking for fancy embellishment, or obvious signs of wealth, he was to be disappointed. Amanda couldn't bear pretension or impracticality, and so she had chosen furniture for function rather than for style. If she bought a chair, it must be large and comfortable. If she bought a side table, it must be sturdy enough to hold a stack of books or a big lamp. She did not like gilding and porcelain disks, nor all the carving and hieroglyphics that were certainly fashionable.

~ Lisa Kleypas

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

~ Hope Mirrlees

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

~ Donald Judd

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

~ Nate Berkus

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

~ P. J. O'rourke

I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

~ Kelly Wearstler

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

~ Brad Pitt

I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.

~ Ben Platt

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys... I'ma spread it out, but I'ma design, probably when I'm just designing furniture and buildings, I'll probably being the jewelry thing, too.

~ Tyler

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

~ Christian Lacroix

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

~ Janina Gavankar

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.

~ Luca Guadagnino

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

~ H. Jackson Brown

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

~ Les Dawson

Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.

~ F. Sionil José