Cheap Quotes

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. (Ronald Reagan)
I shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles. View quote
Thomas Edison
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. View quote
Warren Buffett
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. View quote
Pablo Picasso
The house of delusions is cheap to build, but draughty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall. View quote
A. E. Housman
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap. (about herself) View quote
Dolly Parton
We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. View quote
Cecil Rhodes
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. (Noël Coward)
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Anything you can settle with money is cheap. View quote
Erich Maria Remarque
Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. View quote
Lord Byron
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. View quote
Hosea Ballou
Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. View quote
Paul Krugman
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. View quote
Edmund Burke
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. View quote
Michael Moore
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success. (Raymond Chandler)
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped And they have kept it since by being dead. View quote
John Dryden
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. View quote
Robert Browning
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. View quote
Michael Chabon