Jill Ellis Quotes

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

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

Some people meet people in the grocery store, but I get my tomatoes and I'm out.

I love shopping! I look for new shopping portals. I keep buying a lot of stuff online. I don't follow any one person per se, but if I feel that the particular wear will look good on me, I pick it up without thinking.

I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

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!

I'm a pretty big clothes horse. I shop for clothes constantly. I do so much shopping. I should go to Shoppers Anonymous.

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'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking from shop to shop. Powder in Crouch End always has great designer labels in, so when I walk past I have to put my blinkers on because every time I nip in I come out with too much stuff; it's dangerous.

I love shopping! I'm impatient though. I'll go to the mall and in 30 minutes be ready to go.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

I hate shopping.

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'

If I could get a deal on whatever my impulse was, whenever my impulse struck, and it was nearby, I would use that all the time. It would reshape the way that I shop.

I despise shopping and department stores.

I shop more than most women.

I love shopping, especially food shopping.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.

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.

Women just love to shop.