Definition of Expensive

Expensive

Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.

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Expensive Quotations

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
Benjamin Franklin

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
Warren Buffett

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
Warren Buffett

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'
Peter Drucker

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily Dickinson

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
Princess Diana

Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Ambrose Bierce

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
Lady Gaga

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
James A. Baldwin

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
Freddie Mercury

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Edward Gibbon

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
Meryl Streep

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
Christopher Walken

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Moliere

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.
Marilyn vos Savant

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.
Willie Nelson

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
Eric Clapton

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Stephen Leacock

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.
Annie Leibovitz

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.
Linus Torvalds

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
Stephen Sondheim

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run.
Michael Bloomberg

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes

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Expensive Translations

expensive in Afrikaans is duur
expensive in Dutch is kostbaar, dierbaar, lief, duur, waard
expensive in Finnish is kallis
expensive in German is teuer, teuer, kostspielig
expensive in Italian is caro, costoso
expensive in Latin is carus
expensive in Norwegian is kostbar, dyr
expensive in Portuguese is caro
expensive in Spanish is caro, costoso
expensive in Swedish is dyr

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