Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Valuation is what people are willing to pay.

A common price isn't the lowest price. It will most obviously be the highest price.

… a reasonable price to pay

You have to put a market value on what you do.

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in between where the price is right. I have found this to be true to this day whether dealing in paper hats, winter underwear or hotels.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

That which costs little is less valued.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.

It was a morally representative act. Helms withheld the information because it would have cost him his job.

The fact I am the most expensive player is not a burden.

Never fall in love with something when you're negotiating a price. Never decide you're going to buy something because you can't live without it. Negotiating to buy an item shouldn't be an emotional process.

I'm not cheap but I'm not unaffordable.

We're going to make the product as good as we can, and we're going to try to put it out as reasonably priced as we can. We don't want a $600 shirt. We want a shirt which is around $100.

I think that good, great things can come at every price.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

How much is your sin going to cost me?

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.