Consumption Expenditures Price

Famous quotes containing the words consumption and/or price:

“There is held to be no surer test of civilisation than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognisable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilisation altogether.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)

“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)