Natalie Cole Quotes

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

I used to literally spend every dime I had on clothes, shoes and getting fresh.

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes. I always have been, since I was a kid. When I was young, I could never get the shoes I really wanted.

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.

We spend our way to the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and iPads. Our children wear nice clothes thanks to high-interest credit cards and payday loans. We purchase homes we don't need, refinance them for more spending money, and declare bankruptcy, often leaving them full of garbage in our wake. Thrift is inimical to our being.

I can't tell you how much money I waste on plaid shirts, whisky that I hate the taste of, and Moleskine notebooks that I never write in.

On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'

I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

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.

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

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

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

Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different!

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

I honestly don't know how many pairs of shoes I have - about 100 in use. It sounds so bad. I splurge when I work hard.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

I have a shoe habit. If I'm in New York, it's a problem because I'm walking and I have access to more stores. In L.A., it's not as bad.

I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.