Quote by Thorstein Veblen
"Ceremonial waste in dress and decoration serves as a language communicating financial status to observers."
More from Thorstein Veblen
"The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where one grew before."
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
"The idle curiosity is not so often a mark of the human female as of the male."
"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew."