These furniture quotes will inspire you. Furniture is equipment that is necessary, useful, or desirable, or large movable equipment, such as tables and chairs, used to make a house, office, or other space suitable for living or working.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging furniture quotes, furniture sayings, and furniture proverbs.
Best Furniture Quotes
- “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “When your home is perfect, every plant in place, every piece of furniture suits the space completely – you’ve completed a task.” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.” ~ Kelly Wearstler
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“One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.” ~ Verner Panton
- “In a modern loft, you can’t just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.” ~ Nate Berkus
- “You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.” ~ Nate Berkus
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“Better rooms better furniture, better objects d’art can only be created for a society interested in living – not existing.” ~ Van Day Truex
- “It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.” ~ Stephen Bayley
- “The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.” ~ Nelson Rodrigues
- “Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.” ~ Anthea Turner
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“Most furniture is not made for people – they are made for the people who sell them.” ~ Laura Huxley
- “Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.” ~ Dee Hock
- “They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Necessity invented stools,
Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
And luxury the accomplish’d Sofa last.” ~ William Cowper -
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.” ~ Brad Pitt
- “A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).” ~ Nancy Lancaster
- “On Furnishing One’s Home – Pick your furniture like you pick a wife; it should make you feel comfortable and look nice, but not so nice that if someone walks past it they want to steal it.” ~ Justin Halpern , Home furniture quotes
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“Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.” ~ Billy Casper
- “Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It’s all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.” ~ Michael S. Smith
- “We need objects to remind us of the commitments we’ve made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we’re in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.” ~ Alain de Botton
- “Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.” ~ Noel Coward
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“We can never understand other people’s motives, nor their furniture.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “Furniture that is too obviously designed is very interesting, but too often belongs only in museums.” ~ Milo
- “Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture.” ~ Rita Rudner
- “That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories.” ~ Joseph Roth
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“One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.” ~ Francis Jourdain
- “I’m fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.” ~ Prabal Gurung
- “I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.” ~ Tim Conway , Wooden furniture quotes
- “Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.” ~ Arnold Newman
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“All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth – in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world – have not any subsistence without a mind.” ~ George Berkeley
- “Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.” ~ Eliel Saarinen
- “It looks different when you’re sober; I thought I had twice as much furniture.” ~ Neil Simon
- “Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver’s brain.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“I would have tested the furniture if they’d asked me.” ~ Karen Morley
- “And then there’s the personal question so many of Lassie’s fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he’s the one who paid for it.” ~ Julia Glass
- “No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.” ~ Fran Lebowitz
- “I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.” ~ Les Dawson
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“I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.” ~ Lisa Marie Presley
- “Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien’s attic.” ~ Terry Pratchett
- “By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.” ~ Kelly Wearstler
- “Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.” ~ Isaac D’Israeli
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“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.” ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
- “I learned the importance of a man’s chair early in life. I learned that he may love several wives, embrace several cars, be true to more than one political philosophy, and be equally committed to several careers, but he will have only one comfortable chair in his life. I learned it will be an ugly chair. It will match nothing in the entire house. It will never wear out.” ~ Erma Bombeck
- “You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.” ~ Jeff Foxworthy
- “When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.” ~ Leslie Mann
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“My dressing table was willed to me, with some of my furniture.” ~ Alicia Markova
- “I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” ~ H. P. Lovecraft
- “The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street, and a city are all the same process.” ~ Gianfranco Ferre
- “I don’t have any furniture of mine in my room.” ~ Marc Newson
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“They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the ’50s and ’60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.” ~ Christian Lacroix
- “A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.” ~ Benjamin A. Rogge
- “Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think ‘I can’t spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'” ~ Dolly Parton
- “The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.” ~ Brian Eno
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“I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.” ~ Barbra Streisand
- “I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy store.” ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.” ~ Alfred Lunt
- “How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.” ~ Wallace Stevens
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“I think the set looks great. It’s kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.” ~ Thom Filicia
- “I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.” ~ Donna Karan
- “We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.” ~ Robin Williams
- “Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.” ~ Todd Gitlin
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“Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.” ~ James Laver
- “I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, ‘Damn, that TV has 500 channels.’ When I got older, it didn’t have 500 channels – it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees.” ~ Felipe Esparza
