Term Conspicuous Consumption

Famous quotes containing the words conspicuous consumption, term, conspicuous and/or consumption:

“Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)

“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The sense of humour has other things to do
than to make itself conspicuous in the act
of laughter.”
—Alice Meynell (1847–1922)

“Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption ... is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)