Louis Theroux Quotes

I was long brought up to think that it was nothing short of a crime to miss a sale.

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

I don't like expensive things... I just can't help looking in a magazine for the splurge and the save.

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

L'Oreal's slogan 'because you're worth it' has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card.

I treated myself to a £700 Chloe bag after one of my first acting jobs. Then my friends pointed out that, for the same money, I could buy a flight to India. So I took it back.

I'm not a big shopper.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

An object should elicit desire, and often it happens not because people need it but because they love it.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

The modern girl is less concerned with everything being a brand name.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Bad shopping habits die hard.

I actually hate shopping.

It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.

Status-driven, conspicuous consumption thrives from the language of novelty.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.