Vintage Quotes
Our collection of vintage quotes captures the style and class of all things that are timeless. Vintage refers to an original – usually between 20 and 100 years – that is rare and valued.
On the other hand, retro describes a new product or service that imitates something of value from the past.
Both vintage and retro objects recognize the importance and value of the past. Enjoy these good vintage quotes.
Best Vintage Quotes
1.) It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
Tony Visconti
2.) Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan Pearsall Smith
3.) Be batty, be vintage, and be proud.
Fennel Hudson
4.) What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore them before you live on in some way.
Liz Goldwyn
5.) The essence of art is to produce the modern idea under an antique form.
Oscar Wilde
6.) One of the more fulfilling joys of this wacky world we call vintage is in the interesting artifacts we find, but the most rewarding aspect is the fabulous people met along the way.
Stacey Loalbo
7.) We are born at a given moment, in a given place, and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung
8.) I would like to take the opportunity to show my appreciation for the many men and women who have given us what we have today by buying, saving, storing, and preserving their past.
Stacy LoAlbo
Funny Vintage Quotes
9.) In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.
Criss Jami
10.) To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Christopher Hitchens
11.) Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a boyfriend.
Lucy Liu
12.) Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.
James Russell
13.) All of a sudden, Hulk Hogan has become retro. Hulk Hogan has become cool again. So to come out and to hear how loud the fans are. To hear how loyal the fans are, it’s truly overwhelming. I just can’t believe I’ve been reborn in the WWE.
Hulk Hogan
14.) My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.
Pierre Cardin
15.) One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don’t know the stories, I make them up.
Mary Kay Andrews
16.) I am here. I am awake. Now don’t push it.
A Vintage Ad
17.) Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
18.) Whose idea was it to replace the chrome knobs and push buttons on car radios with ‘touch screens’?
Mark S. Bacon
Retro Quotes
19.) I like styling girls that don’t normally dress in vintage clothes and don’t normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kinds of girls restyled in a retro way.
Dita Von Teese
20.) Vinyl is the real deal. I’ve always felt like until you buy the vinyl record, you don’t really own the album. And it’s not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
Jack White
21.) I like very girly, retro-inspired, feminine, floral things. I’m not very edgy.
Ariana Grande
22.) There’s nothing cooler than a good-fitting, worn-in pair of Wrangler jeans, so it’s great that with the new Retro line, my fans can go out and rock the same styles that I love.
Jason Aldean
23.) Even though there’s the stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I’m most excited by is new mixes of things.
Panda Bear
24.) I really like the retro look. My regular clothing, I like to always keep it classy and I like to kind of be more dressed up more of the time. I’m not really someone you see in sweatpants a lot.
Aly Raisman
25.) I have a retro feel to my work, to my person, but I also have a futuristic view of what’s possible. We can have people in pop that have more diverse looks and attitudes.
LP
26.) Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.
Christie Hefner
Cool Vintage Quotes
27.) I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old-world charm.
Sonam Kapoor
28.) I love history… everything is inspired by history, so that’s why I love vintage and antiques.
Kelly Wearstler
29.) I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and, basically, I’m an old-fashioned gal.
Zooey Deschanel
30.) Vintage clothes became increasingly popular in the late 20th century as contemporary fashion developed a less prescriptive, more individualistic approach and favored a customized referential look.
O’Hara Callan and Glover 2008:268
31.) I’ve always loved fashion so much, and I didn’t have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.
Rachel Roy
32.) My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
India de Beaufort
33.) The thing about being vintage is that it never goes out of fashion.
Anthony T. Hincks
34.) How about the homeowners who combined rusty iron newel posts with wooden spindles in their new home for instant vintage charm?
Brian D. Coleman
35.) In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John Steinbeck
Good Vintage Quotes
36.) Everything I do is unfabulous. I’m the most normal person. I love walking everywhere, and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques because I like to dress differently from other people.
Ashley Benson
37.) Fortunately, I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace, and, most of all, still having fun doing it.
Tony Visconti
38.) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath lost the faithful lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
39.) Luckily I don’t have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I’m off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up – I had to have them.
Fergie
40.) I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting like, if I’m not wearing the proper shoes for a character, I feel totally off.
Morgan Saylor
41.) I have been obsessed with seamed stockings my whole life, and I would collect vintage ones that were made in the ’40s and ’50s with the authentic styling of the keyhole, the welt, the reinforced toe, and heels, French or Cuban heels, and hand-stitched seams.
Dita Von Teese
Short Vintage Quotes
42.) She’s an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.
Nicole Lyons
43.) There’s a vintage that comes with age and experience.
Jon Bon Jovi
44.) I’ve always loved vintage, and I never like to have something someone else has.
Jillian Hervey
45.) The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain-hunting, and vintage.
Orlando Bloom
46.) Black and white, oldest of the vintages, newest of the last season.
Corpkshetrak Vikrmn
47.) Short boughs, long vintage.
George Herbert
48.) It’s not about retro or modern; it’s about this note or that note, which sounds better?
Dan Hicks
49.) Vintage never fits the way you think it will.
Hannah Bronfman
50.) Vintage is my vocabulary… like the notes of a musician.
Alessandro Michele
51.) I love vintage and prints.
Georgina Chapman
52.) I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
Katerina Graham
53.) Skating is now retro and hip.
Robin Cousins
54.) I don’t use emojis. I go vintage.
Rami Malek
55.) Reading is what people did before YouTube, and I love retro stuff!
Toby Turner
56.) No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity.
Taylor Swift
57.) My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
Brandi Carlile
Vintage Sayings
58.) We love curating; we love discovering new products and vintage pieces.
Ashley Olsen
59.) I’m definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
Camila Alves
60.) It makes me cross when I hear people say, ‘It’s so last season.’ I always say, ‘It’s vintage.’
Erin O’Connor
61.) I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
62.) One of my favorite places I’ve visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a week in Havana. The colors, the music, the beautiful men and the cars! I love vintage and antique cars and own a couple myself.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
63.) The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don’t wear her.
Mary Quant
What’s Old is New
64.) When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you’re not just buying the fabric and thread – you’re buying a piece of someone’s past.
Isabel Wolff
65.) You are but a tiny cluster upon the vines of heaven, where the grapes are worlds; yet you hold the power to ripen your bitter berries and add to the eternal vintage of cosmic sweetness if so you will.
Eden Philpotts
66.) Always have old, vintage memories, and young hopes.
Arsene Housayye
67.) The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage – it’s okay for clothes not that great for people.
Karl Lagerfeld
68.) Antique jewelry, all other things being equal, increases in value as time goes on, and it has proved to be a good investment.
Rose Leiman Goldemberg
69.) I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them.
T-Pain
70.) Nothing beats the value of vintage! Why settle for ‘retro’ when you can have the real thing.
Stacey Loalbo
71.) This year’s vintage is best enjoyed this year. Let’s begin.
Gina Barreca
72.) I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style – especially the 1950s style.
Mateus Ward
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Celebrities on Vintage
73.) I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.
Gwen Stefani
74.) I’m not a big shopper. I’m very, very picky about what it is that I buy; I prefer to buy vintage, and then I prefer to be very selective.
Jaime King
75.) Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson. I’m on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion.
Nicki Minaj
76.) I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime.”
Katy Perry
77.) Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
Audrey Hepburn
78.) Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.
Marilyn Monroe
79.) I like fashion because it’s sort of my job, so I’m into it when I have to be. But when I’m not working, I wear jeans and T-shirts. I go to vintage stores all the time to find funky T-shirts.
Kristen Stewart
80.) Nothing is more vintage than dying of Rubella.
Stephen Colbert
81.) The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.
Zoe Kravitz
82.) I’m a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage.
Emma Watson
Short Vintage Quotes
83.) Life’s too short to wear boring clothes.
84.) This vintage mirror says I look cute today.
85.) Bad choices make good stories.
86.) Wow, so ~vintage~.
87.) This mirror makes me feel like I’m living in a different era.
88.) The past beats inside me like a second heart.
89.) I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.
90.) You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
91.) One is always at home in one’s past.
92.) Just reflecting and stuff.
Vintage Captions
93.) If we could only turn back time.
94.) Young at age; old at soul.
95.) This is a vintage goods fan account now.
96.) Vintage never goes out of fashion.
97.) Hi, should I start my own online thrift store? Yes, or yes?
98.) I’m a sucker for a gold frame and dusty edit.
99.) Be vintage.
100.) A vintage year.
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael is the founder and editor of Greeting Card Poet.
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