Patricia Marx Quotes

For me personally, I cannot spend a certain amount of money on anything but shoes, a coat, a purse, and that's it. I could never spend more than $1K on a sweater. I'm only going to wear it twice. But you go online, and you see incredibly expensive sweaters selling out constantly.

I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money.

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

Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.

I'm not attracted to expensive things.

You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.

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.

Only buy things that make your heart sing. If I don't love it, I won't buy it.

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.

I don't really buy expensive clothes. I love good bags!

Real fashion is something you don't need - it's something you want.

Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn't kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you're using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable.

I love jewellery and stuff, so when I first got signed, I spent it on a load of bling.

Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt.

In the old days I never thought about money - but then, of course, the clothes were so ugly in the '80s there was nothing I wanted.

When we think about the trends that millennials are taking toward simplicity, I think it's indicative of a cultural shift toward less of the 'more is more' for materialism sake and more of an emphasis on efficiency, value, and sustainability.

I don't actually know the most expensive thing I've ever bought. It would probably be a jacket, because I don't really spend that much on any other things.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

There are a lot of people with money, but not with the passion to really go spend it.

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

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.