Sophie Kinsella Quotes

I'm an impulse buyer. I'd step inside a shop and buy a nice dress, just like that. Only then do I realize it cost a tidy sum. And when I enter a jewelry store, wow!

I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

Bad shopping habits die hard.

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 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.

I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.

If there is something I like, I buy it and then find somewhere for it. I buy first then I think.

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.

I strongly believe in 'if it catches my eye, it's something I'd buy.'

I buy everything in sight. It took my last ounce of control not to buy one of these in every color.

I buy whatever I see, but I tend to not spend money just to spend it.

If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

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

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.

I actually hate shopping.

I hate shopping.

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 shop more than most women.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the supermarket. But when I'm with my husband, I'm shop shy because he can't bear it. It always ends up with us making a huge scene on the High Street and then going off in a huff in separate directions.

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.

I'm not a big shopper.

In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.