Anthony Hope Quotes

I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late.

Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after.

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

I'm quite careful. I like to buy nice things for myself, but I like to also be reasonable. I think I'm pretty careful.

When you're young, the temptation is maybe to think, 'More is more.' But a lot of the time less is more.

I don't think I'm unduly extravagant.

I am not a person who believes in austerity or denial.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

There is no gain so certain as that which arises from sparing what you have.

I'm not an ascetic.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

I hold this as a rule of life: too much of anything is bad.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

Spend not on hopes.

I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.

Be satisfied with needs instead of wants.

I don't shop.